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Wyss Centre initiates collaboration to improve brain tumour treatment
The Wyss Centre has announced a collaborative project to improve understanding of the brain cancer glioblastoma and develop new personalised therapies.
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IL13Ra2 revealed as target against breast cancer-related brain metastasis
Interleukin 13 receptor alpha 2 was found in increased rates in cancer cells that metastasised to the brain and lungs, a new study has shown.
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Drug could prevent cognitive decline associated with brain tumour radiation
Researchers demonstrated NSPP completely prevented cognitive decline in mice treated with radiation for patient-derived glioblastomas.
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MLL gene key to producing hematopoietic stem cells, says research
Researchers investigating childhood leukaemia have discovered that increasing MLL gene expression in iPSCs drives hematopoietic stem cell production, so could be the target of new therapies.
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GC4419 could prevent debilitating side effect of cancer treatment
Researchers are reporting on a new drug that can treat the painful and debilitating side effect of severe oral mucositis (SOM)...
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Cancer drug screening: the historical perspective
Chemotherapy with cytotoxic and growth inhibitory drugs have played an important role in cancer therapy, used either alone or in combination with other treatment modalities such as surgery, radiation or biological therapy. Chemotherapy, in most instances, was the only alternative treatment for metastatic cancer – mainly given as drug combinations...
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Attacking metastatic tumours in the brain
Targeting HER3 could cripple metastatic cancers that have spread to the brain...
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PET/CT helps predict therapy effectiveness in paediatric brain tumours
Brain cancers are difficult to treat, and it can be hard to predict whether a therapy will be effective. When the patient is a child, it's even more important to predict the potential effectiveness of a drug before beginning treatment.
