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Risk of Deadly Skin Cancer May Be Gauged by Accumulated DNA Damage
Risk for melanoma, the most deadly skin cancer, can be estimated long before detection of any suspicious moles, according to a UC San Francisco scientist who led a new study to detect DNA mutations in individual skin cells.
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New Platform Tests How Breast Cancer Cells Respond to Stretching
A team from Purdue University has created a new platform to test how breast cancer cells respond to the recurrent stretching that occurs in the lungs during breathing.
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Changing the Course of Early Cancer Detection To Save More Lives
Earlier detection of cancer offers arguably the single biggest opportunity to save lives from the disease. The authors of this roadmap hope that the prioritisation of early detection and diagnosis of cancer by scientists, companies, health services and government will create a thriving multidisciplinary ecosystem, focussed on proactively managing patients’ health and wellbeing before symptoms arise.
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Drug Compound Targets Weakness in Advanced Prostate Cancer
A new study reports that prostate cancer cells with a deletion of the SUCLA2 gene can be therapeutically targeted using the compound thymoquinone.
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Drug Resistance Mechanism in Leukemia Discovered
Leukemia modulates the bone marrow niche to protect and promote the survival of tumor cells. Scientists now show that this protective environment also gives leukemia cells with insufficient expression of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes the ability to resist a specific type of anticancer drug called PARP inhibitors.
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Mysterious Molecular Concept Could Be Used To Target Diseased Cells With High Specificity
Researchers have demonstrated how a mysterious molecular concept named "range selectivity" could be used to target diseased cells with high specificity.
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Drug for Aggressive Childhood Cancer Shows Promise in Preclinical Study
A drug has shown promise in the treatment of neuroblastoma, an aggressive form of childhood cancer. The study involved treating mice with the drug, the KSP inhibitor prevented tumor growth and prolonged survival.
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Technique Identifies Optimized Combinations of Anticancer Drugs
Scientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have developed a technique for quickly identifying from a large number of existing drugs the optimal synergistic combination and dose of products that can kill tumour cells without affecting healthy cells.
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Promising Breath Test for Head and Neck Cancer in Development
Flinders University researchers have reported significant progress in developing a method to test exhaled breath profiles which accurately differentiate head and neck cancer from non-cancer patients.
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OncoHost Data on Host Immunotherapy Response to be Presented This Week
OncoHost, announced that Professor Yuval Shaked, Professor of Cell Biology and Cancer Science at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, will deliver a presentation titled A Proteomics-Based Platform for Predicting Response to Immunotherapy and Personalizing Treatment Plans at the MAP 2020 Virtual Congress.
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