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Artificial Intelligence system to help detect skin cancer
New technology being developed by researchers is using artificial intelligence to help detect melanoma skin cancer earlier...
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Oncology
Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
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Non-coding RNA encourages cancer growth and metastasis
Researchers have deduced how an alternative form of RNA encourages tumours to spread.
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GIST tumours linked to NF1 mutations
Researchers have determined that a specific region of the duodenal-jejunal flexure, shows a high frequency of gastrointestinal stromal tumours with mutations of the NF1 gene...
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Two-step process leads to cell immortalisation and cancer
New research, has studied the immortalisation process using genome-engineered cells...
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Novel immunotherapy technology for prostate cancer
Scientists have described a novel immunotherapeutic strategy for the treatment of cancer based on the use of synthetic DNA...
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New imaging technique may predict the of spread breast cancer
Researchers have developed a radioactive ‘tracer’ molecule to detect myeloid-derived suppressor cells’ accumulating in the lung in preparation for the arrival of breast cancer cells...
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New genetic analysis reveals early diagnosis for breast cancer
Researchers have shown that catching and treating breast cancer before it spreads is now a realistic goal...
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From cancer evolution to personalised therapies
A research team have studied how alterations in a tumour depend on each other and how these dependencies determine cancer evolution...
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Blood test to transform the way cancer is monitored and treated
Scientists have described a new type of test that can detect genetic mutations in minute amounts of DNA...
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Improved analysis of kidney cancer
A research team have discovered that in the Cancer Genome Atlas database the gene expression in reference samples differs from normal tissue, depending on where in the kidney the samples happen to have been taken from...
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Killer peptide helps eliminate resistant cancer cells
Scientists have identified a Par-4 amino-terminal fragment that is released by diverse therapy-sensitive cancer cells...
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Prospects identified for immunotherapy treatments
A report published has identified the prospects of immunotherapy treatments...
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New cancer therapy eliminates toxic delivery vehicles for mRNA
US researchers have conjugated RNA to a molecule of folate, the folate receptor is overexpressed on cancer cells but very low on normal cells, which is why they can target a tumour and avoid healthy cells...
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Avenue discovered for precision cancer treatment
A novel chemical dubbed "T-REX," along with a patent-pending targeting molecule have uncovered interesting facets of several well-known cancer-cell mutations that, if present in a patient, could inform treatment options and potentially produce more favourable outcomes...
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Gene-regulatory factors improve pancreatic cancer treatment
Researchers have identified two molecules that can improve the response of pancreatic cancer to a common chemotherapy drug and also predict the prognosis of pancreatic cancer patients...
