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A derivative of vitamin B3 found to prevent liver cancer in mice
Nov 25, 2014
Liver cancer is one of the most frequent cancers in the world, and with the worst prognosis; according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), in 2012, 745,000 deaths were registered worldwide due to... Read More
Melanoma immunotherapy inhibits tumor growth & increases survival
Nov 24, 2014
Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced its newest DNA-based cancer immunotherapy targeting melanoma induced a robust and broad immune response in animals and directed cancer-killing T cells... Read More
Immune checkpoint inhibitors may work in brain cancers
Nov 24, 2014
New evidence that immune checkpoint inhibitors may work in glioblastoma and brain metastases was presented by Dr Anna Sophie Berghoff at the ESMO Symposium on Immuno-Oncology 2014 in Geneva... Read More
Possibilities for personalised vaccines revealed at ESMO Symposium
Nov 24, 2014
The possibilities for personalised vaccines in all types of cancer are revealed in a lecture from Dr Harpreet Singh at the ESMO Symposium on Immuno-Oncology 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland. Read More
Delivering a promising one-two punch for lung cancer
Nov 24, 2014
Scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered a powerful one-two punch for countering a common genetic mutation that often leads to drug-resistant cancers. Read More
Study may lead to more targeted treatments for cancers and 'Rasopathies'
Nov 24, 2014
Researchers have successfully targeted an important molecular pathway that fuels a variety of cancers and related developmental syndromes called "Rasopathies. Read More
Surprise finding has implications for wound repair therapies and inhibiting cancer
Nov 24, 2014
While investigating a rare genetic disorder, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that a ubiquitous signaling molecule is crucial to cellular... Read More
Powerful method revealed to speed cancer drug discovery
Nov 24, 2014
For decades, researchers have struggled to translate basic scientific discoveries about cancer into therapeutics that effectively--and with minimal side effects--shrink a tumor. Read More
New "human interactome" map predicts new cancer genes
Nov 24, 2014
Scientists have created the largest-scale map to date of direct interactions between proteins encoded by the human genome and newly predicted dozens of genes to be involved in cancer. Read More
Key discovery in understanding immunotherapy's successes - and its failures
Nov 24, 2014
A collaborative team of leaders in the field of cancer immunology from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has made a key discovery that advances the understanding of why some patients respond to... Read More
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