Posts Tagged ‘cancer’
Triple-negative breast cancers can adopt reversible state that is resistant to chemotherapy
Study finds triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells can develop resistance to frontline, or neoadjuvant, chemotherapy not by acquiring permanent adaptations, …
Read Full ArticleThe Leukemia Atlas: researchers unveil proteins that signal disease
Computational researchers and oncologists created an online atlas to identify and classify protein signatures present at AML diagnosis. …
Read Full ArticleNew study targets Achilles’ heel of pancreatic cancer, with promising results
Advanced pancreatic cancer is often symptomless, leading to late diagnosis only after metastases have spread throughout the body. …
Read Full ArticleScientists ‘reverse engineer’ brain cancer cells to find new targets for treatment
Glioblastoma is one of the most devastating forms of cancer, with few existing treatment options. It is also a leading cause of cancer-related death in children and young adults. …
Read Full ArticleScanning for cancer treatment
Approximately, 11,000 people are predicted to die from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in 2019, according to the American Cancer Society. The cancer starts in the bone marrow. …
Read Full ArticleTurning on cancer-fighting genes
Researchers led by experts at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have successfully blocked the activity of portions of a protein known as UHRF1 and restored the function of hundreds of cancer-fighting genes …
Read Full ArticleCancers ‘change spots’ to avoid immunotherapy
Cancers can make themselves harder for new immunotherapies to see by ‘changing their spots’ – and switching off a key molecule on the cell surface. …
Read Full ArticleA new role for genetics in cancer therapy-induced cardiomyopathy
Recent advances in the development of cancer therapies have increased long-term survival and prognosis. However, the increased burden and prevalence of harmful side effects, including cardiomyopathy, …
Read Full ArticleLoss of a DNA repair system creates a unique vulnerability in many cancer types
Cancer cells adapt to potentially fatal mutations and other molecular malfunctions by adjusting one or more other genes’ activity, …
Read Full ArticleSingle-cell sequencing reveals landscape of immune cell subtypes in lung cancer tumors
The recent emergence of immunotherapy has marked a sea change in research and care for many forms of cancer, bringing new hope to patients and families …
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