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Urine gene test can predict bladder cancer years before diagnosis: Researc
Updated : 3 weeks ago IST
According to new research, testing for genetic abnormalities in urine can identify bladder cancer years before the disease manifests clinical symptoms.
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Research: Enzyme that protects against viruses could fuel cancer evolution
Updated : 3 months ago IST
An enzyme that defends human cells against viruses can help drive cancer evolution towards greater malignancy by causing myriad mutations in cancer cells, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. The finding suggests that the enzyme may be a potential target for f
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Scientists unlock cancer's ancestry
Updated : 3 months ago IST
Could knowing where your ancestors came from be the key to better cancer treatments? Maybe, but where would that key fit? How can we trace cancer's ancestral roots to modern-day solutions? For Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Research Professor Alexander Krasnitz, the answers may lie dee
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Concentration of surgery improves operations for childhood cancer: Researc
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Neuroblastoma is a tumour of the sympathetic nervous system that occurs mainly in young children. Every year, 25 children in the Netherlands receive this diagnosis. Surgery to remove the tumour tissue forms an important part of the treatment plan. Since November 2014, care for children in th
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Researchers unravel population of 'cheating' cells in cancers
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Researchers at UConn Health, Yale, and Johns Hopkins have identified that some cancer cells can "cheat" by escaping constraints imposed by lack of oxygen, allowing the cancer cells to continue to grow.
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Research: Killing pancreatic cancer with T cells that supercharge themselv
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have engineered T cells to produce a potent anti-cancer cytokine, but only when they encounter tumour cells.
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Researchers uncover new pathway for molecular cancer drug therapies
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A fundamental challenge in drug development is the balance between optimizing a drug's lock-and-key fit with its target and the drug's ability to make its way across the cellular membrane and access that target.
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Scientists find out if new cancer drug can come from potatoes
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
A team of Polish scientists led by Magdalena Winkiel at Adam Mickiewicz University, publishing today in Frontiers in Pharmacology, reviewed the bioactive compounds called glycolalkaloids that are found in many vegetables that are household names, like potatoes and tomatoes, to demonstrate th
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Research: Women with benign breast disease are at higher risk of breast ca
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Researchers found that women who acquire a benign breast illness diagnosis through screening have an almost doubled risk of acquiring breast cancer.
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Possible 'electrical language' of breast cancer cells discovered by resear
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Variable voltages have been discovered in the membranes of breast cancer cells, revealing information about how the cells grow and spread.
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Research: Women with benign breast disease face higher risk of breast canc
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The risk of breast cancer is almost doubled in women diagnosed with benign breast disease through screening, according to research presented at the 13th European Breast Cancer Conference.
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New discovery gives hope to fight metastatic cancer
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Cancer that splits and develops in new organs around the body becomes significantly more difficult to fight. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have shown that these metastatic cancers, that spread from the original, adapt their metabolism to the tissue in which t
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