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07/24/20 Highly acidic foods can increase breast cancer recurrence and mortality among past smokers

JUNE 26, 2020 by Padma Nagappan, San Diego State University Meat and cottage cheese are highly acidic and can increase breast cancer recurrence and mortality among past smokers. Diets higher in acidic foods such as...

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07/24/20 A metabolic enzyme drives lymphoma and is a potential drug target

JUNE 25, 2020 by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Because of how aggressively they divide, cancer cells have an increased demand for building materials and energy. They meet these added demands by altering their metabolism—taking...

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07/24/20 Fresh insights into why some harmful substances are so efficient at causing cancer could aid the quest for better treatments.

JUNE 24, 2020 Cancer study shows how chemicals cause complex cell mutations by University of Edinburgh New research reveals how chemicals can cause changes in cells to help them dodge the body's immune system and...

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07/24/20 Online tool helps doctors predict whether childhood cancer treatment will lead to premature menopause

JUNE 23, 2020 Online tool helps doctors predict whether childhood cancer treatment will lead to premature menopause by Yolanda Poffenroth, University of Alberta Rebecca Clark, a recent graduate of the U of A's School of...

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06/23/20 Vitamin D may help prevent a common side effect of anti-cancer immunotherapy

JUNE 22, 2020 by Wiley New research indicates that taking vitamin D supplements may help prevent a potentially serious side effect of a revolutionary form of anti-cancer therapy. The findings are published early online in...

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06/23/20 Breakthrough discovery to transform prostate cancer treatment

JUNE 20, 2020 by University of South Australia Breakthrough discovery to transform prostate cancer treatment A novel formulation of the prostate cancer drug abiraterone acetate - currently marketed as Zytiga - will dramatically improve the...

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06/23/20 Will chemo cause heart failure? A new test may have answers

JUNE 19, 2020 by Jim Shelton, Yale University Yale doctors have developed a technique to predict whether cancer patients receiving a common chemotherapy drug are likely to experience heart failure as a result. The chemotherapy...

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06/23/20 Cancer treatment: personalised blood tests can better detect DNA from tumours in the body – new research

JUNE 18, 2020 by Jonathan C. M. Wan, Katrin Heider, Nitzan Rosenfeld, The Conversation Cancer treatment: personalised blood tests can better detect DNA from tumours in the body – new research Many cancers, especially in...

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06/23/20 Common cholesterol drugs could slow spread of breast cancer to brain

JUNE 17, 2020 by Deanna Csomo McCool, University of Notre Dame A new study from the University of Notre Dame shows drugs used to treat high cholesterol could interfere with the way breast cancer cells...

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06/17/20 New mechanism underlying colorectal cancer reveals a crucial role for intestinal microbes

JUNE 16, 2020 by VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) A collaborative study by research groups from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research and Ghent University uncovered a new mechanism causing colorectal cancer. The researchers...

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06/17/20 Blood cancer find raises new treatment hopes

JUNE 15, 2020 by QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute Blood cancer find raises new treatment hopes New QIMR Berghofer research has identified how an early genetic change in blood and bone marrow cells paves the...

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06/17/20 Considerable national costs attributed to cancer medical care

JUNE 12, 2020 Considerable national costs attributed to cancer medical care (HealthDay)— The national costs attributed to medical care for cancer are considerable and are projected to increase 34 percent by 2030 based on population...

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06/17/20 Cancer rates have risen, but mortality has dropped – here’s what the numbers are saying

JUNE 11, 2020 Cancer rates have risen, but mortality has dropped – here's what the numbers are saying by Maarten Wensink and Silvia Rizzi, The Conversation Healthcare advancements mean we’re dying less from all kinds...

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06/17/20 A good vitamin D status can protect against cancer

JUNE 10, 2020 by University of Eastern Finland A good vitamin D status is beneficial both in cancer prevention and in the prognosis of several cancers, according to a new research review. The anti-cancer effects...

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06/17/20 Predicting cancer behavior requires better understanding of tumor cells

JUNE 9, 2020 by American Institute of Physics Predicting cancer behavior requires better understanding of tumor cells A cell's transit through a suspended microchannel resonator can be used to determine its passage time and buoyant...

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06/17/20 Many hospitalized people with advanced cancer struggle with important daily tasks

JUNE 8, 2020 by National Comprehensive Cancer Network New research from Mass General Cancer Center, published in the June 2020 issue of JNCCN—Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, found 40.2% of hospitalized patients with...

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06/17/20 Experts release new guidelines for studies into most effective treatments for HPV-positive throat cancer

JUNE 5, 2020 by University of Birmingham Heightened caution is needed when considering de-escalation trials for patients with Human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive oropharyngeal cancer (OPC), to ensure minimal harm to patients, new guidelines from a group...

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06/17/20 ASCO: drop in cancer mortality greater with medicaid expansion

JUNE 4, 2020 ASCO: Drop in cancer mortality greater with Medicaid expansion (HealthDay)— States that expanded Medicaid (EXP) had a greater decrease in age-adjusted cancer mortality than those that did not, according to a study...

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06/17/20 Diet, gut microbes affect effectiveness of cancer treatment, research reveals

JUNE 3, 2020 Diet, gut microbes affect effectiveness of cancer treatment, research reveals by Josh Barney, University of Virginia Eyleen O’Rourke, UVA assistant professor of biology, says that by modulating the microbes that live in...

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06/17/20 Discovery in human acute myeloid leukemia could provide novel pathway to new treatments

JUNE 2, 2020 by The Mount Sinai Hospital Researchers at Mount Sinai have discovered that human acute myeloid leukemia (AML) stem cells are dependent on a transcription factor known as RUNX1, potentially providing a new...

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