Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Genetic information collected from seemingly healthy tissue near lung tumors may be a better predictor of whether cancer will come back after treatment than analysis of…
Tag: Oncology & Cancer
First in human trial of new drug raises hopes for patients with relapsed blood cancer
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new targeted drug, studied by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center—Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC—James),…
Mosaic chromosomal alterations study provides valuable insights into drivers of cancer risk
Genomic distribution of autosomal mCAs. a, mCA calls across autosomal chromosomes. b, Histogram of mCA calls across the genome for each genetic ancestry group. The X axis is shown in…
An updated look at prostate cancer disparities
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Cedars-Sinai Cancer investigators have found that Black men respond as well as white men to systemic therapies for advanced prostate cancer when access to quality health…
Study shows skin cancer diagnoses using AI are as reliable as those made by medical experts
Primary diagnostic trial aim. Credit: The Lancet Digital Health (2023). DOI: 10.1016/S2589-7500(23)00130-9 Artificial intelligence (AI) is already widely used in medical diagnostics. An Austrian-Australian research team led by dermatologist Harald…
Trial results suggest better use of existing drugs increases cervical cancer survival and reduces recurrence
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The INTERLACE phase III trial assessed whether a short course of induction chemotherapy (IC) prior to chemoradiation (CRT) could reduce the rate of relapse and death…
Pre- and post-surgical immunotherapy improves outcomes for patients with operable lung cancer
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Compared with pre-surgical (neoadjuvant) chemotherapy alone, adding perioperative immunotherapy—given before and after surgery—significantly improved event-free survival (EFS) in patients with resectable early-stage non-small cell lung cancer…
Advancing ultrasound microvessel imaging and AI to improve cancer detection
Credit: Mayo Clinic News Network Ultrasound—a technology that uses sound waves to produce an image—is commonly used to monitor the development of a baby as it grows inside its mother.…
Highest risk patients with clear-cell renal cell carcinoma benefit from adjuvant everolimus: Clinical trial
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A secondary analysis from the SWOG S0931 EVEREST trial has found that in the subgroup of patients with clear-cell renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who were at…
Nearly half of oncology drugs approved since 1998 are precision therapies
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Of the 198 new oncology drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) between 1998 and 2022, approximately 43% were precision oncology therapies, the…
