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Researchers develop highly specific apoptosis assay for pharmacodynamic analyses of tumor specimens
Existing microscopy-based methods of detecting apoptosis, such as TUNEL (terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick-end labeling), have limited quantitative capabilities...
3 hours ago - News Medical
Potential Biomarker Can Help Identify Cancer Chemotherapy Timing
To help doctors identify the tumor normalizing period for effective timing of anti-cancer drug treatment, a new biomarker has been discovered.
5 hours ago - Medindia Health - 2 articles
Nanodisc-delivered cancer treatment helps eliminate tumors
In the wrestling match with cancer, chemoimmunotherapy is the new strong arm, and it is building muscle with a nanodisc disguised as "good cholesterol."
8 hours ago - News Medical - 2 articles
High-resolution images of tumor vasculature using new technology
Thanks to a new method of analyzing ultrasound images, conventional scanners can be used for generating high-res images of blood vessels in tumors. This approach makes it...
9 hours ago - News Medical
Novel method enables fast and noninvasive assessment of tumor status
How aggressive is a tumor? To measure the tumor status without taking tissue samples, Italian researchers have developed a method based on magnetic resonance imaging of whole...
9 hours ago - News Medical
Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab appears effective for resectable melanoma
Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab followed by curative-intent resection and adjuvant therapy conferred 1-year recurrence-free survival of 55% among patients with stage III or stage IV...
12 hours ago - Healio
Biomarkers predict response to pembrolizumab in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Tanguy Seiwert CHICAGO - PD-L1 expression and T-cell activated gene expression profile independently predicted response, PFS and OS among a cohort of patients with head and...
16 hours ago - Healio
Neoadjuvant Anti-PD-1 Active in Multiple Tumors
Major responses in pilot study for NSCLC, melanoma, bladder cancers
16 hours ago - MedPageToday
Detailed images of tumor vasculature
Thanks to a new method of analyzing ultrasound images, conventional scanners can be used for generating high-res images of blood vessels in tumors. This approach makes it...
19 hours ago - ScienceDaily
New study maps links between 625 genes and different chemotherapy treatments
Despite the great successes of targeted cancer drugs and the promise of novel immunotherapies, the vast majority of people diagnosed with cancer are still first treated with...
1 day ago - News Medical - 3 articles
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Thousands of donated livers could be saved by warming them
The new technology from the University of Oxford that acts as life support for the liver could increase the number of transplants for the more than 115,00 people in the US on...