Groundbreaking new treatment for brain cancer significantly improves outcomes
Tumor cells are highly resistant to all known therapies, and, sadly, patient life expectancy has not increased in the last 50 years.
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Joseph Shavit
- 4 days ago
Two FDA-approved drugs combine to dramatically reduce lung cancer tumors
Cancer treatments have been evolving towards personalization, tailored to specific genetic and molecular patterns of individual tumors.
Joseph Shavit
- 7 days ago
Scientists make significant lung cancer discovery
Treatment for lung cancer has improved in recent years — and a new Edith Cowan University study has found how to make it even more effective
Joseph Shavit
- 7 days ago
Game-changing treatment cures prostate cancer in under one hour
The one-hour game-changing ‘Nanoknife’ operation has been described as ‘amazingly simple and quick’ by both surgeons and patients.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 15
Cancer fighting protein kills tumors and boosts the body’s immunity
Tumor cells typically alter their energy metabolism and increase glucose uptake to support their rapid division and spread.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 14
Scientists discover new molecule that kills liver cancer cells
Study has uncovered a potential new approach against liver cancer that could lead to the development of a new class of anticancer drugs.
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 9
Cancer-fighting virus destroys tumors from the inside out
A common respiratory virus, called adenovirus, acts like a Trojan horse to deliver genes for cancer therapeutics directly into tumor cells
Joseph Shavit
- Mar 1
Groundbreaking new device can detect and analyze cancer cells from blood samples
The Static Droplet Microfluidic device is able to rapidly detect circulating tumour cells that have broken away from a primary tumour.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 27
Anti-cancer drug displays incredible promise in human clinical trials
The drug stalled the growth of tumors in the five people in the trial with neuroendocrine cancers and reduced tumor size in two patients.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 26
Surprising research identifies why most life-long smokers never develop lung cancer
Cigarette smoking is overwhelmingly the main cause of lung cancer, yet only a minority of smokers develop the disease.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 24
Lifechanging cancer drug stops tumor growth in its tracks
Many cancer patients relapse, often years or decades after their initial treatment, and develop new tumors that regrow in the same location.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 21
Cholesterol-lowering drugs can also fight cancer, major study finds
Cancer patients rarely die from the primary tumor but rather from the metastases – even after successful tumor surgery.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 18
mRNA vaccine eradicates pancreatic cancer, study finds
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers had already been working to use mRNA vaccine technology to treat cancer.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 17
Lifechanging cancer vaccine both kills and prevents brain cancer
Investigators have developed a new cell therapy approach to eliminate established tumors and induce long-term immunity.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 17
'Natural killer cells' found to be incredibly effective at destroying cancer cells
The 'game-changing' treatment used different human immune cells known as natural killer (NK) cells—with dramatic results.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 17
Gamechanging cancer innovation reverts cancer cells back into normal cells
Researchers have tested the possibility of artificially maturing breast cancer cells as an approach to turn them into normal cells.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 16
Life-changing surgery can cure prostate cancer in one hour
Doctors in the UK hope that thousands of men with prostate cancer could be cured through an innovative hour-long operation.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 15
Scientists identify killer T cells that target and eradicate cancers
As a part of our immune defences, cytotoxic T cells – or killer T cells – seek out and destroy cells that are infected or cancerous.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 15
Cancer fighting protein depletes tumors of energy and boosts the body’s immunity
New anti-cancer therapies could simultaneously deplete tumors of energy and boost the body’s immune response against them.
Joseph Shavit
- Feb 9
Trojan Horse virus destroys cancerous tumors from the inside out
A new technology enables the body to produce therapeutic agents on demand at the exact location where they are needed.
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