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Statin use may improve survival in patients with some blood cancers

Patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) who were taking cholesterol-lowering statin medications at the start…

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Gene-based blood test for melanoma may catch early signs of cancer’s return

Monitoring blood levels of DNA fragments shed by dying tumor cells may accurately predict skin cancer recurrence, a new study…

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CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty

Uncertainty and balancing “The estimates, while based on the best models available to the authors, are indirect, so there is…

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When it comes to obesity-related cancers, where you shop for food matters

besity is at epidemic proportions in the United States where more than 40% of adults are obese and more than…

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Combination immunotherapy shrank a variety of metastatic gastrointestinal cancers

A new form of tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy, a form of personalized cancer immunotherapy, dramatically improved the treatment’s effectiveness…

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Enzyme engineering opens door to novel therapies for Parkinson’s, cancers and other hard-to-target protein diseases

Scientists have long struggled to target proteins that lack defined structure and are involved in cancer, neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson’s…

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Classifying childhood brain cancers by immune response may improve diagnostics and treatments

Researchers and pediatric neurosurgeons at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh developed a…

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Scientists discover how to reactivate cancer’s molecular ‘kill switch’

Alternative RNA splicing is like a movie editor cutting and rearranging scenes from the same footage to create different versions…

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New antibody reduces tumor growth in treatment-resistant breast and ovarian cancers

Antibody treatment which activates the patient’s own immune system against cancer, known as immunotherapy, is increasingly being investigated as an…

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New CAR-T cell therapy shows promise for hard-to-treat cancers

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have successfully developed a supercharged iteration of CAR-T cell therapy that…

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