(HealthDay)—Cancer patients who need radiation therapy shouldn’t let fear of COVID-19 delay their treatment, one hospital study suggests. Over six days in May, during the height of the pandemic in New Jersey, surfaces in the radiation oncology department at Robert…
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New database could help lead to personalized treatments for breast cancer patients
All current breast cancer drugs were first tested in cell lines. Each cell line began as cancer in a patient. As such, each cell line is a surrogate for that patient’s disease. A new database of 40 breast cancer cell…
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The secret of lymph: How lymph nodes help cancer cells spread
For decades, physicians have known that many kinds of cancer cells often spread first to lymph nodes before traveling to distant organs through the bloodstream. New research from Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) provides insight into…
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Rates of prescription opioid use higher in cancer survivors
(HealthDay)—Cancer survivors have higher rates of prescription opioid use but do not have increased rates of prescription opioid misuse compared with those without a history of cancer, according to a study published online Aug. 17 in JAMA Network Open. Vikram…
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A step toward cancer prevention
Cancer incidence and cancer mortality are rising rapidly throughout the world. While the reasons are complex, efforts are underway to identify high-risk individuals who would benefit most from cancer screening. Wei Zheng, MD, Ph.D., and colleagues have applied polygenic risk…
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568 genes identified with the potential to trigger cancer
Analysis of the genomes of 28,000 tumors from 66 types of cancer has led to the identification of 568 cancer driver genes Performed by the Biomedical Genomics Lab at IRB Barcelona, the study has allowed a major update of the…
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A cancer mystery more than 40 years old is solved thanks to epigenetics
Before the first oncogene mutations were discovered in human cancer in the early 1980s, the 1970s provided the first data suggesting alterations in the genetic material of tumors. In this context, the prestigious journal Nature published in 1975 the existence…
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HPV vaccine has reduced need for cervical cancer screening, medical group says
For the first time, an expert medical group has recommended delaying, decreasing and simplifying cervical cancer screening, largely because the HPV vaccine, introduced 14 years ago, is protecting young women from the disease. Most Americans still don’t know that the…
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Grandma's monthly manicure 'saved her life' after her nails revealed lung cancer
When Joan Martindale noticed her fingernails and toenails getting wider, more bulbous, and starting to curve, she dismissed the changes as no big deal. It wasn’t until her manicurist of ten years raised alarm bells that she finally sought medical…
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Investigational breast cancer vaccine plus immune therapy work well in tandem
A vaccine for HER2-positive breast cancers that is being tested in a clinical trial at Duke Cancer Institute is part of an effective, two-drug strategy for enlisting the immune system to fight tumors, according to a Duke-led study in Clinical…
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