New Medicare-Covered Genetic Cancer Screening Test Could Save Your Life
Medicare now covers new genetic cancer screening at little or no out-of-pocket cost.This genetic screening allows your DNA to be analyzed to help determine your cancer risk and match you with your best options for preventing and treating illness. Source: New...Infections and cancer: The link could be stronger than we think
Study reveals a common cellular mechanism through which bacterial infection could promote cancer and increase resistance to anticancer drugs. Source: Infections and cancer: The link could be stronger than we...Could gut bacteria drive the spread of breast cancer?
New research in mice finds that having an unhealthful balance in the gut microbiome can cause breast cancer to spread more aggressively. Source: Could gut bacteria drive the spread of breast...How Artificial Intelligence could help with early detection of breast cancer
“Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach, we can personalize screening around a woman’s risk of developing cancer,” senior study author Regina Barzilay, an MIT professor who is also a breast-cancer survivor, said in a statement. “For example, a doctor might...Treating Cancer Based on Its Genetics, Not Its Location
Most people still think of cancer as related to one organ, like breast, prostate or lung cancer. The idea that cancers that arise in different places could have similar, if not identical, causes is a surprise to most people.
Breakthrough combination therapy extends lives of women with the most common breast cancer
Seventy percent of young, pre-menopausal women in the study who took a drug called ribociclib in combination with standard hormone therapy were alive after 3-1/2 years, compared to just 46% of women who received hormone therapy alone. Source: Breakthrough combination...New breast cancer drug found to boost survival rates by 30 percent
Lead author Sara Hurvitz told AFP the study focused on hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, which accounts for two-thirds of all breast cancer cases among younger women and is generally treated by therapies that block estrogen production. Source: New breast cancer...Measles is a natural cancer killer
In a study titled ‘Measles to the Rescue’, the researchers say that “virotherapeutic agents are likely to become serious contenders in cancer treatment”, and that the vaccine strain of measles virus holds special hope. Source: April 2019 |...‘Lock-‘n’-block’ drug may prevent cancer from metastasizing
“They got all of it” are the reassuring words people hope to hear following cancer surgery, but a growing understanding of the science of how cancer spreads, and metastasizes, is suggesting that not only is this almost never true but—and here is the...Are Cancer Stem Cells the Key to Discovering a Cure?
This is an alternative theory of cancer treatment–outside of the mainstream but worth investigating Source: Are Cancer Stem Cells the Key to Discovering a Cure? | Wake Up...Researchers Have Discovered How To Turn Cancer Cells BACK Into Normal Cells!
So far they’ve had promising results in the lab on aggressive types of breast, lung, and bladder cancer cells. Incredibly, this discovery may make treatment staples like chemotherapy a thing of the past! Researchers also think this may make it easier to diagnose tumor...BREAKING: FDA Panel Approves “Living Drug” That Uses Patient’s Own Immune System To Fight Cancer
NPR is calling scientists’ attempts at using the body’s own immune system to fight cancer “one of the most important developments in cancer research in decades.” Source: BREAKING: FDA Panel Approves “Living Drug” That Uses Patient’s Own Immune System To Fight Cancer |...New virus could help destroy cancer
Virotherapy is a treatment that uses biotechnology to transform certain viruses into anti-disease agents. These viruses include oncolytic viruses, which infect and destroy cancer cells.
A cure for cancer: how to kill a killer
Revolutionary work on the body’s immune system and a host of new drug trials mean that beating cancer may be achievable Source: A cure for cancer: how to kill a killer | Science | The...Using light to destroy metastatic breast cancer
Metastatic breast cancer may soon be treated using light to activate photo-sensitive drugs which, in turn, can target cancer cells and avoid healthy ones. Source: Using light to destroy metastatic breast...1 in 5 Breast Cancer Patients Could Benefit from This Treatment — If They Could Get It
Besides being potentially able to treat breast cancer in 20 percent of patients, PARP inhibitors also have other benefits. They target only the cancerous cells, leaving healthy cells alone, and they cause very minimal side effects in most patients. Source: 1 in 5...Antibiotic may prevent breast cancer recurrence
Metastasis and recurrence are huge challenges for breast cancer researchers. One group believes that an existing antibiotic might provide help. Source: Antibiotic may prevent breast cancer...3D Printing and Breast Reconstruction
3D printing can be used to grow new nipples using living cells and to regrow whole breasts
Could we soon be able to detect cancer in 10 minutes?
Pioneering methods are being developed to find traces of tumours quickly in small blood samples Source: Could we soon be able to detect cancer in 10 minutes? | Science | The...
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