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Newswise — Researchers at The University of Kansas Cancer Center have secured a $3.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to study high-dose intravenous Vitamin C for treating muscle-invasive bladder cancer. This type of cancer, affecting 25% of bladder cancer patients, occurs when cancer cells spread to the muscle layer of the bladder…
Newswise — LOS ANGELES (Aug. 8, 2024) — Liver transplant is considered the best treatment for liver cancer, but only available for patients with early-stage disease. Now a study led by Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators has concluded that immunotherapy could make liver transplant an option for patients with later-stage cancer as well. The international study was published in the…
Newswise — Sarcomas are highly metastatic soft tissue and bone cancers and are often difficult to treat. Scientists have had trouble studying these cancers because they have lacked good research models. But that may be changing, thanks to new research by investigators at UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center and UCLA Health’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center….
Newswise — Blood cancers are a type of cancer that affects the blood and blood cells, and are caused by DNA mutations that cause abnormal blood cell behavior. Blood cancers are more common in men than women, and account for about 10% of all diagnosed cancers in the U.S. each year. Summit Gaur, M.D. Oncology/Hematology medical…
It’s not every day we get to see the tiny world that exists beyond our vision, but that’s what the Nikon Small World in Motion competition is all about. This is the 14th year of the competition, where past winners revealed extraordinary insights into things like the stomach contents of a termite, human cells fusing and dying during…
Newswise — President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will visit Tulane University today to announce that the university will be awarded up to almost $23 million to create an imaging system that will give doctors the ability to scan a tumor during surgery and determine within minutes whether any cancer tissue has been…
Volunteer firefighter training will become more accessible in Oxford County as five of its rural fire service groups have turned into a regional training centre (RTC) for the Ontario Fire College. The Norwich Fire Service along with departments in Blandford-Blenheim, South-West Oxford, Zorra and East Zorra-Tavistock will soon be offering in-house training courses to anyone across the province who wants to work…
Newswise — Every year, millions of women get mammograms to screen for breast cancer. About 10% of them are called back for further testing. And 7% to 12% of those women receive a false-positive result, meaning that the mammogram detects something that looks like cancer, but turns out not to be. It’s not hard to imagine the…
Alternating pazopanib and bevacizumab found superior to pazopanib alone Strategy aims to delay onset of resistance to pazopanib Study reveals median progression-free survival of 23.3 months Newswise — BUFFALO, N.Y. — A phase 1/2 clinical trial for patients with metastatic kidney cancer demonstrated that a novel two-agent treatment regimen developed at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer…
Newswise — New research from a team of genome scientists and DNA damage response experts breaks new ground in understanding the function of a protein currently limited in clinical trials for cancer treatments. Led by Haichao Zhao, PhD, in the Yan Lab at UNC Charlotte, the new research shows how ATM-mediated signaling is induced by DNA single-strand…
