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According to research, supplying glutamine directly to tumors could help to initiate the immune system’s cancer-killing activity.

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is an aggressive cancer characterized by metastasis and treatment resistance. Now, researchers have identified tumor-initiating cells responsible for disease progression and resistance to treatment in PDAC.

Treatment times for radiotherapy could be reduced for some early breast cancer patients, according to a trial

Researchers encoded a toxin produced by bacteria into mRNA molecules and delivered these particles directly to cancer cells, causing the cells to produce the toxin – which eventually killed them with a success rate of 50%.

A group has developed a technology to capture and release cell-free DNA on nanowire surfaces from urine. By extracting this DNA, they were able to successfully detect IDH1 mutation, a characteristic genetic mutation of gliomas, a type of brain tumor.

Childhood, adolescent and young adult cancer patients and survivors are at an increased lifetime risk of developing depression, anxiety and mental health illnesses even after remission of cancer, study says.

Researchers have identified a new mechanism by which cancer hijacks a class of enzyme motif mutations to fuel tumorigenesis.

Tobacco smoking and human papillomavirus (HPV) are both well-known risk factors for head and neck cancer, but there is ample evidence to show they can interact to increase still further the risk of contracting the disease.

Research by the University of Southampton into the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in people with lymphoma has shown that repeated vaccination increases their ability to prevent infection from the virus, particularly after four doses.

In a new study, the team developed a comprehensive and high-resolution methylation atlas based on a vast dataset of 521 noncancerous tissue samples representing 29 major types of human tissues.