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.…
Tag: Oncology & Cancer
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…
Survey finds significant gaps in UK public awareness of telltale cancer signs in kids and teens
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain There are significant gaps in the UK public’s awareness of the telltale signs and symptoms of cancer in children and teens, with just a third of…
Liver cancer: Risk factors and prevention
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain October is Liver Cancer Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about risk factors for liver cancer and what you can do…
Researchers develop blood test for early-stage ovarian cancer
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain High-grade serous ovarian carcinoma (HGSOC) is the most common type of ovarian cancer. It is also the most lethal form, in part because clinicians do not…
Zebrafish avatars can help tailor glioblastoma therapies
Patient-derived tumor cells (green) growing in a zebrafish embryo with its vascular network labeled in yellow, and its macrophages, a type of immune cell, in red. Credit: Lise Finotto, VIB –…
New robot could help diagnose breast cancer early
The device. Credit: George Jenkinson A device has been created that could carry out clinical breast examinations (CBE). The manipulator, designed by a team at the University of Bristol and…
True progression or pseudoprogression in glioblastoma patients?
Credit: Human Brain Project Is it true progression or pseudoprogression in tumor growth? That’s the critical question for radiation and medical oncologists treating patients with glioblastoma, the most common and…
Researchers discuss reassessing COVID-19 precautions in 2023
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new editorial paper titled “Reassessing the risks and benefits of COVID-19 precautions in 2023” has been published in Oncotarget. The COVID-19 pandemic has killed over…
