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Can We Use Machine Learning To Predict the Spread of Brain Tumors?

Researchers have created a computational model that uses machine learning to fully analyze a patient’s tumor and better predict glioblastoma multiforme progression.
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How Specialized Immune Cells Can Detect "Invisible" Tumors

Scientists from the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Leiden University Medical Center have discovered the way in which specialized immune cells can detect and remove cancers that are "invisible" to the conventional defense mechanisms employed by the immune system.
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Precision Medicine Program Helps To Guide Gastrointestinal Cancer Treatment

A new program has been used to provide expert treatment guidance for more than 500 patients over a six-month evaluation period and has identified clinical trials appropriate for most of them.
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Cancer Gene Discovery Could Pave the Way for New Lung Cancer Treatments

The discovery of a protein – named Menin – that contributes to the abnormal deactivation of genes during cancer progression could help pave the way toward new lung cancer treatments.
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Trial Shows MRI-Guided Radiotherapy Improves Treatment for Localized Prostate Cancer

According to a clinical trial, MRI-guided radiotherapy produces fewer side effects and better quality of life for patients with localized prostate cancer than computed tomography-guided radiotherapy.
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Gene Target Identified That May Boost Cancer Immunotherapy

Researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital have identified a gene that is active in some treatment-resistant cancer cells, which when silenced, enhanced the cells' susceptibility to immunotherapy.
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Genetic Test Identifies Ovarian Cancer Patients Likely To Benefit From PARP Inhibitors

Researchers have developed an optimized genetic test for ovarian cancer, which helps accurately target an effective but expensive medication.
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Novel Cell "Switches" Promote Lung Cancer Growth

Northwestern Medicine investigators have revealed new insights into how cancer cells can change their form by undergoing phenotypic “switches” to facilitate tumor growth and treatment resistance in small cell lung cancer.
Human cells with acute myelocytic leukemia (AML) in the pericardial fluid, shown with an esterase stain at 400x.
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Severity of Blood Cancer Is Linked to Inflammation Levels

Inflammation “risk scores” could aid decision-making on the best therapies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
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Modeling Cell Migration Uncovers How Cancer Cells Navigate Tissues

Physicists have modeled cell migration, showing how cancer cells distinguish between soft and stiff surfaces as they navigate tissues during metastasis.
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