Cancer Medicine Is Failing Us
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Excessive use of skin cancer surgery curbed with awareness effort
(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Sometimes a little gentle peer persuasion goes a long way toward correcting a large problem.That's the message from researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and seven collaborating health care organizations which report tha...
Lung cancer: Less invasive surgery for faster recovery
(University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) ) Every day, 78 Canadians receive a diagnosis of lung cancer, the most deadly form of cancer. Some will have one lobe of a lung removed. The results of a large international clinical study led...
Stephenson Cancer Center physician is senior author on major study
(University of Oklahoma) A gynecologic oncologist at the Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine was a national leader of a newly published research study that reveals good news for women with ovarian cancer -- longer survival times plus a treatment...
Can we cure cancer by finding out how two proteins interact?
(Koc University) The research conducted by Dr. Sila Özdemir during her Ph.D. studies at Koç University has unveiled the interactions of two families of proteins that are known to play a key role in cancer metastasis.
Study to examine impact of therapy animals on children with cancer
(Vanderbilt University Medical Center) Mary Jo Gilmer studies the impact animals can have on children with life-threatening conditions. She recently received a grant from nonprofit Human Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI) for a pilot program inve...
A deep-learning model may help predict lung cancer survival and outcomes
(American Association for Cancer Research) A deep-learning model developed using serial image scans of tumors from patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) predicted treatment response and survival outcomes better than standard clinical param...
Molecular target UNC45A is essential for cancer but not normal cell proliferation
(Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University) Identifying a protein that plays a key role in cancer cell growth is a first step toward the development of a targeted cancer therapy. It is especially promising when this protein is dispensable for...
Scientists enter research collaboration to outsmart cancer
(InSilico Medicine, Inc.) Today, Insilico Medicine, a biotech company developing the end-to-end drug discovery pipeline utilizing next-generation artificial intelligence, announces its partnership with Arctoris, the world's first fully automated...
Cervical cancer is more aggressive when human papillomavirus is not detected
(Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)) Cervical cancer negative for the human papillomavirus (HPV) is rare but more aggressive: it is more frequently diagnosed at advanced stages, with more metastasis and reduced survival. These are the c...