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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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Scientists discover how aspirin could prevent some cancers from spreading

Scientists have uncovered the mechanism behind how aspirin could reduce the metastasis of some cancers by stimulating the immune system,…

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A new way to predict cancer’s spread? Scientists look at ‘stickiness’ of tumor cells

By assessing how “sticky” tumor cells are, researchers at the University of California San Diego have found a potential way…

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Possible links between PFAS exposure and childhood cancers

A study led by the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health at the University of California, Irvine…

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