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Mount Sinai and TJU researchers awarded grant for UM research

Uveal melanoma (UM) is the second most common type of skin cancer. Approximately 50 percent of patients will develop metastasis or spread of their cancer, most commonly to the liver.

21 Sep 2016

Immune and targeted therapies may be beneficial in patients with melanoma brain metastases

Brain metastases are one of the most common complications of advanced melanoma, requiring multidisciplinary management.

21 Sep 2016

Hidden Scar approach minimizes visible breast cancer scars

PinnacleHealth Breast Care Surgeons Lisa Torp, Brynn Wolff and Katherine Barton are the first in Pennsylvania to be recognized for Excellence in Hidden Scar™ Breast Cancer Surgery.

21 Sep 2016

Duke researchers discover blood markers linked to drug-resistant tumor cells

While searching for a non-invasive way to detect prostate cancer cells circulating in blood, Duke Cancer Institute researchers have identified some blood markers associated with tumor resistance to two common hormone therapies.

21 Sep 2016

Sticky nanoparticles could play vital role in fighting cancers

Sticky nanoparticles that deliver drugs precisely to their targets — and then stay there — could play a crucial role in fighting ovarian and uterine cancers.

20 Sep 2016

Leading cancer organizations publish new guidelines on postmastectomy radiotherapy

Three leading national cancer organizations today issued a joint clinical practice guideline update for physicians treating women with breast cancer who have undergone a mastectomy.

20 Sep 2016

Researchers discover new strategy to boost effectiveness of anti-cancer immune therapy

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center have identified a strategy to maximize the effectiveness of anti-cancer immune therapy.

19 Sep 2016

Novel therapy offers hope for effective treatment of intractable metastatic cancers

Cancer treatments that mobilize the body's immune system to fight the disease have generated a lot of excitement in the past few years.

19 Sep 2016

UC football team supports brain cancer survivor

In 2009, Mitch Stone was 11 when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He went through very aggressive treatments at Cincinnati Children's.

16 Sep 2016

HMS scientists reveal how certain tumors develop taste for fat

Cancers are such notorious sugar addicts that PET scans searching for the disease light up when they detect sugar-gobbling tumor cells.

15 Sep 2016

New study provides most comprehensive picture to date of head and neck cancer stem cells

Cancer stem cells resist therapy and are a major cause of relapse, long after the bulk of a tumor has been killed.

15 Sep 2016

Research consortium to receive 5.1 million euros to develop new device for breast cancer diagnosis

A large European research consortium headed by the University of Twente is to receive grants of more than five million euros, predominantly from the EU, to develop a new imaging device for the diagnosis of breast cancer.

15 Sep 2016

UTSW surgeons remove acoustic neuromas through small incisions in the ear canals

A surgical team at UT Southwestern Medical Center is helping to pioneer a new minimally invasive procedure that extracts vertigo-inducing tumors from the inner ear without having to remove a large piece of skull, as is usually required.

15 Sep 2016

Small implanted device can improve breast cancer survival by detecting cancer cells

A small device implanted under the skin can improve breast cancer survival by catching cancer cells, slowing the development of metastatic tumors in other organs and allowing time to intervene with surgery or other therapies

15 Sep 2016

Automated CTC analysis isoflux cytation imager launched by Fluxion Biosciences

Fluxion Biosciences, Inc. announced today that it has launched a new imaging system, the IsoFlux Cytation Imager, designed to work exclusively with the IsoFlux Liquid Biopsy System and CTC Enumeration Kit. The IsoFlux Cytation Imager comes pre-configured with all components and software required for automated CTC image acquisition.

From Fluxion Biosciences 15 Sep 2016

Researchers discover new genes with potential to improve adoptive T cell therapy

A Yale Cancer Center research team has identified that two genes, NR4A1 and ABC transporters, mark a distinct subset of quiescent T cells within human tissues, and have developed methods to mobilize them into circulation for potential application in adoptive T cell therapy of cancer.

15 Sep 2016

Tumor News and Research

Mount Sinai and TJU researchers awarded grant for UM research

Immune and targeted therapies may be beneficial in patients with melanoma brain metastases

Hidden Scar approach minimizes visible breast cancer scars

Duke researchers discover blood markers linked to drug-resistant tumor cells

Sticky nanoparticles could play vital role in fighting cancers

Leading cancer organizations publish new guidelines on postmastectomy radiotherapy

Researchers discover new strategy to boost effectiveness of anti-cancer immune therapy

Novel therapy offers hope for effective treatment of intractable metastatic cancers

UC football team supports brain cancer survivor

HMS scientists reveal how certain tumors develop taste for fat

New study provides most comprehensive picture to date of head and neck cancer stem cells

Research consortium to receive 5.1 million euros to develop new device for breast cancer diagnosis

UTSW surgeons remove acoustic neuromas through small incisions in the ear canals

Small implanted device can improve breast cancer survival by detecting cancer cells

Automated CTC analysis isoflux cytation imager launched by Fluxion Biosciences

Researchers discover new genes with potential to improve adoptive T cell therapy

Columbia researchers find way to reawaken potent cancer-fighting molecule in tumor cells

BET inhibitors could be powerful new therapeutic strategy for ovarian cancer

Study identifies new gene that suppresses breast cancer in mice

Stiff, hypoxic regions of tumors trigger cancer progression

Professor Nancy Ip: Pioneering New Paths in Neurodegenerative Therapy

Utilizing process Raman in optimizing cultivated meat production

Exploring the G:Box and for high-quality imaging

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