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Study finds no reason for cancer survivors to be excluded in advanced stage lung cancer trials
Feb 12, 2015
The common practice of excluding patients with a prior cancer diagnosis from lung cancer clinical trials may not be justified, according to a study by researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center. Read More
Lung cancer may be treatable with use of SapC-DOPS technology, research shows
Feb 12, 2015
Lung cancer is the most common and the deadliest type of cancer worldwide, with about 221,000 new cases and an estimated 158,000 deaths in 2015 in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society. Read More
Study finds no reason for cancer survivors to be excluded in advanced stage lung cancer trials
Feb 12, 2015
The common practice of excluding patients with a prior cancer diagnosis from lung cancer clinical trials may not be justified, according to a study by researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center. Read More
Lung screening guidelines improve on study findings
Feb 12, 2015
Lung-RADS provides framework for lung cancer screeningsA set of guidelines developed to help standardized lung cancer screening would have generated considerably fewer false-positives than the... Read More
Cancer's ability to 'hijack' regulatory mechanism increases metastasis
Feb 12, 2015
MD Anderson study finds connective tissue cross-links are key to epithelial lung cancer spreadWhen skyscrapers go up, contractors rely on an infrastructure of steel beams and braces. Read More
Keck Medicine of USC researchers trace origins of colorectal cancer tumor cells
Feb 12, 2015
Big Bang' model of tumor growth provides view into how to stop cancer before it startsFor the first time, Keck Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) cancer researchers have... Read More
New screening tool could speed development of ovarian cancer drugs
Feb 12, 2015
University of Chicago Medicine researchers have built a model system that uses multiple cell types from patients to rapidly test compounds that could block the early steps in ovarian cancer... Read More
How tumor-causing cells are recruited in cancers linked to chronic inflammation
Feb 12, 2015
For the first time, the cellular mechanisms for cancers caused by chronic inflammatory conditions are explained, providing potential therapeutic targets in the process. Read More
Inherited gene variations tied to treatment-related hearing loss in cancer patients
Feb 12, 2015
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have identified inherited genetic variations associated with hearing loss in young cancer patients treated with cisplatin, a drug widely used to treat... Read More
Previously unknown genomic regions found in African American families with breast cancer
Feb 12, 2015
Supports hypothesis that there may be genetic breast cancers specific to that populationThe "Jewels in our Genes" study, led by University at Buffalo researcher Heather Ochs-Balcom, has uncovered... Read More
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