[ad_1] Despite decades of medical advances, children who develop the pediatric eye cancer retinoblastoma often lose their vision or an eye due to a lack of specific, targeted therapies and a poor molecular understanding of…
Biosensor detects brain tumors with less than a…
[ad_1] Despite significant advances, mortality from brain tumors remains high with five-year survival rates of 36%, according to the National Cancer Institute. More accurate diagnoses might improve the situation, but tissue biopsies are invasive and…
Research brings us closer to optimizing treatments for…
[ad_1] Retinoblastoma is a cancer of the eye that occurs in infants and toddlers and can lead to loss of vision, loss of one or both eyes, and even death. Unlike most tumors, these cannot…
A study suggests that high-fat diets fuel the…
[ad_1] The results may help explain how high-fat diets trigger inflammation, which can contribute to the development of insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and other complications in individuals with obesity. An invasion of inflammatory immune…
Treating the cerebrospinal fluid to protect the brain…
[ad_1] Up to three quarters of patients receiving cancer chemotherapy suffer from "chemo brain" -; a long-term side effect that makes it harder to remember things, maintain attention, and learn new information. When it strikes…
Inherited genetic variants increase risk of Hodgkin lymphoma…
[ad_1] Why did my child get cancer? Clinicians have longed for a way to help answer this question. Doctors knew Hodgkin lymphoma sometimes occurs in families, but why this happens has been a mystery. Scientists…
New method eradicates deadly brain tumors by ‘starving’…
[ad_1] A groundbreaking study at Tel Aviv University effectively eradicated glioblastoma, a highly lethal type of brain cancer. The researchers achieved the outcome using a method they developed based on their discovery of two critical…
To wipe childhood cancer off the map, scientists…
[ad_1] Scientists have created a roadmap of the genetic mutations present in the most common childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital study is the first to supply a comprehensive…
Researchers identify a new class of drugs that…
[ad_1] Chemotherapy sucks. The treatments generally have awful side effects, and it's no secret that the drugs involved are often toxic to the patient as well as their cancer. The idea is that, since cancers…
Discovery saves valuable time, determines success of CAR…
[ad_1] In the war against cancer, one of the most critical battles is waged on a cellular level as T cells from the immune system are altered in the lab to attack cancer cells. This…