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Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received a $17 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to address disparities in cancer research, treatment and outcomes in underrepresented populations. The research, funded through the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Moonshot program, will focus on African American patients with colorectal cancer and multiple […]
A trio of drugs could delay the progression of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. This is among the findings of a phase lll clinical trial published in The Lancet Oncology by an international research team led by Dr. Fred Saad, a researcher at the CHUM Research Centre, a Université de Montréal professor and the holder of the […]
Scientists have homed in on a crucial step within the sequence of chemical reactions that govern regulation of cell division, proliferation and death, and whose malfunction contributes to the growth of tumors. The research appears in the journal Communications Biology on Nov. 1, 2021. Within biology, the term signalling pathways describes the cascade of chemical […]
Deaths from smoking-related cancers in China are expected to rise by almost 50% over the next two decades, finds research published online in the journal Tobacco Control. Experience from other countries where peaks in smoking prevalence occurred in the mid-twentieth century has shown that peaks in smoking-related deaths generally occur several decades later. For example, […]
Get ready to indulge in hot sex, intense love poems, and the transformative power of beauty because Scorpio season is upon us. Saturday, October 23, through Sunday, November 21, is about to be the sexiest, spookiest time of year — mark my words. No matter what your sign is, the tortured artist in us all […]
How cancers metastasize remains poorly understood. The process begins when cancer cells break off from a tumor and invade blood and lymphatic vessels, the body’s alleyways. But studying invasion—typically a microscopic process—is challenging. However, some types of tumors can invade blood vessels and form larger masses. By focusing on kidney cancer, a tumor that bulldozes […]
Oncotarget published "Exosomal and non-exosomal miRNA expression levels in patients with HCV-related cirrhosis and liver cancer" which reported that patients with HCV-related cirrhosis are at risk for liver cancer development. For these patients, miRNAs may serve as preclinical markers, which expression levels are deregulated in cancer and which are stable to the damaging factors partly […]
Read every sign's current 2021 horoscope predictions to see what's in store for you this year or check out each sign's personality profile to learn more about the zodiac. It's October, which means that we officially entered Halloween season, beautiful star babies. Yes, Mercury is currently retrograde, but that (and three other retrogrades!) will end […]
Mutations in blood cells likely caused by smoking and aging-related changes may lead to a rare type of blood cancer that affects immune cells, shows a study published today in eLife. The findings may lead to new ways to diagnose, treat or prevent rare blood cancers and to identify patients who could go on to […]
Children and young people with cancer in the UK face something of a funding lottery for services to preserve their fertility, with specialist treatment centers heavily reliant on charities to stump up the cash needed, particularly in England, finds the first study of its kind, published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. This is […]