New Map of the Immune Landscape in Pancreatic Cancer Could Guide Future Personalized Immunotherapy Treatments

A new analysis highlights the diversity of immune response in pancreatic cancer, and points toward the need for treatments tailored to individual patients.
26-Oct-2020 1:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Real-time opioid overdose tracking system shows rise in the time of COVID-19

An epidemic that was already raging before COVID-19 arrived has flared up in recent months, according to a real-time tracking system in Michigan. It shows a 15 percent rise in suspected opioid overdose deaths since March, compared with the same time...
26-Oct-2020 8:55 AM EDT Add to Favorites

1 in 12 parents say their teen has attended a demonstration about racism or police reform

A growing number of demonstrators taking to the streets to protest police brutality and racial injustice may include teenagers, a new national poll suggests.
21-Oct-2020 9:55 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Research Team Discovers the Molecular Processes in Kidney Cells That Attract and Feed COVID-19

What about the kidneys make them a hotspot for COVID-19’s cytokine storm? A research team says it’s the presence of a protein found on specialized renal transport cells.
23-Oct-2020 10:40 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Toward a New Staging System for Prostate Cancer, and Why it Matters

The development and validation of a staging system for non-metastatic prostate cancer could help doctors and patients assess treatment options, as well as improve clinical trials.
22-Oct-2020 11:30 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Rogel team receives $11.2M to leverage the microbiome against GVHD

A team of researchers from the Rogel Cancer Center received an $11.2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study how to use the microbiome to limit complications of stem cell transplants for blood cancers and other...
21-Oct-2020 2:10 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Tumor DNA in Spinal Fluid Could Help Doctors Better Monitor Childhood Brain Cancer

Researchers have demonstrated that a new liquid biopsy approach overcomes traditional barriers to quickly and efficiently diagnose and monitor high-grade pediatric gliomas.
21-Oct-2020 12:15 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Axitinib Improves Survival for Patients with Incurable Head and Neck Cancer

A new phase 2 clinical trial found the drug axitinib was able to extend the lives of patients with incurable head and neck cancer by several months, and also identified a subset of patients with a specific mutation for whom the drug is likely to...
20-Oct-2020 12:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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