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Cancer stem cells use normal genes in abnormal ways
Researchers have identified that MHC Class I-high, CDK1 high molecules may be at the heart of conditions including melanoma, pancreatic and colon cancers...
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Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
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Immunotherapy could cure advanced pancreatic cancer
Immunotherapy using 'educated' killer cells could be a potential cure for pancreatic cancer, with researchers eliminating all signs of cancer from mice...
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Early treatment could reverse autistic behaviour in tuberous sclerosis
Scientists may have found a sensitive time period where autism related social deficits could be reversed in tuberous sclerosis...
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Scientists find treatment for tumour cell population that causes tumour relapse
Researchers in Europe have developed a treatment that targets a tumour cell population responsible for therapy resistance and tumour relapse, giving optimism for patients with the most frequent form of cancer.
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Researchers develop a potential tool for efficacious targeted cancer therapy
Researchers have developed PeptiENV, a cancer vaccine platform, which can be used to improve the therapeutic efficacy of oncolytic enveloped viruses...
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Estradiol exerts anticancer effects in triple-negative breast cancer
Researchers have identified the drug estradiol as a potential new treatment for a subset of women with triple-negative breast cancer...
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Chemotherapy and APOE4 linked to cognitive issues
Both human and mouse models show that chemotherapy and APOE4 are linked to cognitive issues faced by patients who overcome cancer...
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SERDs molecules could spur a new class of drugs for breast cancer
Stevens researchers design and develop a new class of molecules for breast cancer therapy...
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Alpaca immune system reveals a potential treatment for cancer
Researchers have identified camelid nanobodies that are able to block EGF, a protein that is abundant in tumour cells...
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Cancer immunotherapy researchers win Nobel prize
Researchers from the US and Japan have received the Nobel prize in medicine for their development of cancer immunotherapy using PD-1 and CTLA-4...
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Rare mechanism for ALL to relapse after CAR-T therapy
A single leukemic cell has become resistant to CAR-T therapy after unknowingly engineered with the leukemia-targeting CAR lentivirus...
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Amazonian plant provides anti-tumour activity
A plant from the Amazonian region of Colombia has shown anti-tumour properties against human liver cancer cells, but not against healthy cells...
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Cancer vaccine shows promise for HER2-positive cancers
Treatment with a HER2-targeted therapeutic cancer vaccine provided clinical benefit to several patients with metastatic HER2-positive cancers...
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DNA vaccine shows promise for cancer immunotherapy
DNA vaccine optimised to cross-react with several MAGE-A isoforms generates a robust immune response and antitumour activity in a pre-clinical model of melanoma...
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‘Paintable’ chemotherapy for melanoma shrinks tumours
A hydrogel incorporating transfersomes and chemotherapy drugs incorporated with some intravenous medication may be the best treatment for melanoma...
