When the coronavirus pandemic spread rapidly in the US in the year 2020, the number of people taking cancer screenings fell drastically. While most of the screening centers were temporarily closed, others were facing severe staff shortages. Moreover, people were scared of going to the hospital for non-emergency...
Initial research done by doctors at the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center has found that the oral medication zanubrutinib was very helpful for patients suffering from a slow-growing type of cancer known as marginal zone lymphoma.
Among the 20 patients who took the clinical trial,...
Inflammatory cell death is a critical part of the body's immune response. When the cell death happens in controlled levels, then everything is normal but when it is reaches uncontrollable levels, it can cause dangerous levels of inflammation in organs and tissues, which are otherwise very healthy.
Researchers...
Research conducted by the McGill University has found higher instances of lung cancer and brain tumors among people who have been exposed to wildfires. Researchers studied over two million Canadians over a time frame of 20 years to arrive at this conclusion. The study is the first of its kind to examine...
Researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology are in the process of developing a low-cost handheld machine, which can bring down the instances of unnecessary biopsies in skin cancer cases by half. The handheld device will also offer dermatologists and other doctors' easy access to laboratory-grade...
Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital or MGH have developed a treatment method, which can bring the life-saving benefits of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy or CAR T to patients suffering from acute myeloid leukemia or AML. This is the most common form of leukemia affecting the adult...
Latest research conducted in the UK has shown that analysis of the sodium levels in breast cancer tumors gives a correct indication of how aggressive the cancer is and whether chemotherapy will be a solution or not.
In the study conducted by the universities of York and Cambridge and funded by the...
Researchers at the Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered that the decision by public health authorities to downgrade recommendations for the prostate-specific antigen or PSA test as a screening tool to bring down the overdiagnosis and overtreatment of men with low-grade prostate cancer is not a correct...
Researchers at the Sloan Kettering Institute have recently discovered a new immune cell "solider", which could be used well in immunotherapy, thus offering help to people who do not respond well to the treatment.
This treatment is expected to bridge the gap between people who do not respond to the...
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a non-invasive sound technology, which disintegrates the liver tumors in rats and destroys once and for all the cancer cells in the body and activates the immune system to stop the further spread of liver cancer in the body. This discovery is very...
Research conducted by scientists at Newcastle University has shown that exercise causes the cancer-fighting protein interleukin-6 to be released into the bloodstream, which helps to repair the DNA of damaged cells.
The findings, which were published in the International Journal of Cancer, shows the...
Worldwide, cigarette smoking is considered to be the main reason behind lung cancer but only a small percent of smokers fall prey to the disease. A study done by scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and published online in Nature Genetics reveals that certain smokers have in-built mechanisms,...
Research done at the Tel Aviv University has proven that a drug delivery system based on lipid nanoparticles can make use of RNA to control the resistance shown by cancer cells to both chemotherapy and immunotherapy forms of treatment. The results were published in the scientific journal Advanced Materials...
Latest clinical research has shown that lamivudine, a reverse transcriptase inhibitor widely used in HIV therapy, could stop the spread of cancer in around 25 percent of patients with fourth-line metastatic colorectal cancer. The findings of the research were published in Cancer Discovery and offer new...
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Surgery is the first in the United States to show that a living-donor liver transplant is a feasible option for patients who have systemically controlled colorectal cancer and liver tumors, which cannot be removed by surgery....