Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a pooled analysis of three clinical trials, acupuncture significantly reduced hot flashes and other hormonal side effects of endocrine therapy taken by women with breast…
Tag: Oncology & Cancer
At-home HPV testing boosts cervical cancer screening participation
Mailed at-home self-sampling for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing increases cervical cancer screening participation in underscreened populations by almost threefold, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the…
New treatment could be advance against cervical precancers
Women who undergo regular Pap smears are no doubt familiar with the possibility of “precancerous” cells being detected. These cells—called cervical intraepithelial neoplasias (CINs)—can progress to full-blown cervical cancers, but…
Screening with a PSA test has a small impact on prostate cancer deaths but leads to overdiagnosis, finds study
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The largest study to date investigating a single invitation to a PSA blood test to screen for prostate cancer has found it had a small impact…
Using cryo-shocked tumor cells to fight lung cancer
Schedule of LNT cells delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 nanoparticles for KRAS-mutant NSCLC treatment. Credit: Science Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adk8264 A team of medical researchers at Zhejiang University, in China, has developed…
Study finds association between TB infection and increased risk of various cancers
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A population-wide observational study to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2024) in Barcelona, Spain (27-30 April) shows…
Real-time reconstruction of high-intensity focused ultrasound focal temperature field based on deep learning
Invivo real-time temperature field reconstruction during HIFU treatment using deep learning. Credit: School of Integrated Circuits @ HUST. High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a non-invasive technique for tumor ablation. During…
Scientists using novel hydrogel to create ‘lollipops’ for mouth cancer diagnostic
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Researchers from the University of Birmingham, U.K., are creating a new ‘lollipop’ diagnostic for mouth cancer using a novel smart hydrogel. Developed by Dr. Ruchi Gupta…
New review on p53 biology and reactivation in blood cancers
A simplified scheme of p53 regulation in cells upon stress and the drugs currently evaluated in clinical trials for p53 reactivation for improved therapy in MDS and AML. Credit: Biomarker…
Scientists identify Achilles heel of lung cancer protein
Rendering of interface in the mutant EGFR studied that was shown to be critical for EGFR-driven tumor growth. The K946E mutation shown in red was used by the team to…
