Virtual patient ‘surrogates’ can personalize cancer treatments
Scientists have developed mathematical models that act as patient ‘surrogates’ for evaluating potential prostate cancer treatments.
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Joseph Shavit
Feb 15, 2022
Three-prong treatment eliminates cancer tumors in five minutes
Researchers have developed a nanoplatform that non-invasively eliminates solid liver cancer tumors with a single five-minute dose.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 8, 2022
Prostate cancer antibody drug shows success in dogs
Dogs are proving to be a far better scientific model for study of prostate cancer than mice, the typical animal used in the lab.
Joseph Shavit
Feb 4, 2022
11-year-old sews cheerful hospital gowns for young patients
Giuliana sews for two to three hours a day after school "because I feel like this is way more important than other things that I could do".
Joseph Shavit
Jan 29, 2022
Carbon nanotubes could be the answer to anticancer drug delivery
The key is that the nanotubes pull the liposomes and the cancer cells together, allowing the membranes of the liposome and cancer to mix.
Joseph Shavit
Jan 28, 2022
Players needed to solve puzzles and help advance cancer research
Scientists in Barcelona have launched GENIGMA, a videogame that enlists players to solve puzzles while generating real-world cancer data.
Joseph Shavit
Jan 18, 2022
Kindhearted teen donates his hair to kids battling cancer
Kieran cut his 19-inch-long afro with the goal of donating the hair for use in wigs for children battling cancer.
Joseph Shavit
Jan 13, 2022
Researchers reveal how skin cells form a first line of defence against cancer
The findings offer new clues into the behaviour of skin cancer at the cellular level, paving the way for potential new therapeutic targets.
Joseph Shavit
Jan 12, 2022
Researchers uncover how and why obesity can lead to cancer
Obesity is the cause of approximately 500,000 new cancer cases each year – a number that is expected to grow as obesity rates climb.
Joseph Shavit
Jan 11, 2022
Rapid cancer test provides warning from a single drop of blood
The test is inexpensive and uses a test strip and a small cube-shaped 1.6-inch reader to quantify a marker of prostate cancer.
Joseph Shavit
Jan 9, 2022
Blood test helps predict who may benefit from lung cancer screening
A blood test, combined with a risk model based on an individual’s history, more accurately determines who will benefit from screenings.
Joseph Shavit
Jan 5, 2022
Keanu Reeves Donated 70% of Movie Earnings to Charity
Keanu Reeves, has reportedly donated most of his salary from The Matrix to Leukaemia Research and it's a LOT of cash money.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 14, 2021
New drug combination key to very long-term leukemia remission in young patients
Researchers suggest that a 2.5-year regimen involving ibrutinib and chemoimmunotherapy can provide deep, and lasting remissions.
Joseph Shavit
Dec 9, 2021
Researchers develop a world-first antibody-drug delivery system
It sounds like the stuff of science fiction: a man-made crystal that can attach to antibodies and then supercharge them with potent drugs.
Joseph Shavit
Nov 30, 2021
Shape-changing microrobots dispense medicine directly to cancer cells
Researchers have now created tiny shape-changing microrobots that can deliver medications directly to the cells where they’re needed.
Joseph Shavit
Nov 26, 2021
Cost-effective new drug to treat lung cancer is finally here
Most recent lung cancer research focuses on anti-angiogenic therapy, a cancer treatment that uses anti-cancer drugs to block angiogenesis.
Joseph Shavit
Nov 5, 2021
Researchers design antibodies that destroy old cells, slowing down aging
No one knows why some people age worse than others and develop diseases -such as Alzheimer's, type 2 diabetes or some types of cancer.
Joseph Shavit
Oct 17, 2021
Researchers discover a more targeted treatment for cancer
Several years ago, it was discovered that a group of women with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer also have mutations in one of two genes
Joseph Shavit
Oct 16, 2021
New cost-effective drug to treat lung cancer is finally here
Most recent lung cancer research focuses on anti-angiogenic therapy, a cancer treatment that uses anti-cancer drugs to block the tumor.
Joseph Shavit
Oct 11, 2021
Anti-nausea drug may help some cancer patients survive longer
Patients with breast, pancreatic and certain other types of cancer may survive longer if given an anti-nausea drug during surgery.
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