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In the past several years, many checkpoint inhibitors have been approved by the FDA for use in treating patients with metastatic bladder cancer. These drugs offer new options for doctors who are treating these patients, but they also pose the challenge of determining the best order in which to use them. Joaquim Bellmunt, MD, Ph.D., […]
Continue readingIn 2010 Doctors diagnosed college athlete, Bailey O’Brien with terminal cancer, but her parents refused to accept this death sentence. Bailey O’Brien entered her senior year of college ready to tackle all that came her way. She didn’t know she’d be tackling a death sentence. After being diagnosed with melanoma cancer three years earlier, the 20-year-old springboard diver […]
Continue readingCancer is defined by cell cycle deregulation and uncontrolled growth. It is the second leading cause of death in the world. In the United States alone there were 1,658,370 new cancer cases diagnosed and 589,430 cancer deaths and an estimated 750,000 deaths in Europe. We are fighting a losing battle.But we now have a new hope […]
Continue readingWhat is NISC-6? Based on a recent study, a new compound found in cruciferous vegetables has been identified to act as the base for a new drug that has the potential to kill melanoma in the skin without affecting healthy cells. Two researchers from Penn State College of Medicine designed a compound called NISC-6 […]
Continue readingCancer patients have a better chance at beating diseases with the help of immunotherapy, a type of cancer treatment, as studies are now showing. Two new immunotherapy drugs have recently been approved by the Food and Drug Administration last March. One of the immunotherapies approved is Keytruda, which is made to treat Hodgkin’s lymphoma for […]
Continue readingVitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is an antioxidant compound that is found in many fruits and vegetables such as lemons, oranges, grapefruits and cabbages. It can also be taken as a dietary supplement, either alone or as part of a multivitamin complex. According to researchers from the University of Iowa, the Vitamin C […]
Continue readingJohns Hopkins’ scientists have crafted a digital map, also called “ImmunoMap”, although still undergoing development, that can someday be used to identify which cancer patients will respond successfully to immunotherapies. This digital map addresses the variability of T-cell receptors which are chemical antennas that identify antigens and trigger an immune response. Through this digital map, […]
Continue readingUnraveling the Cancer Genome An in-depth look and research into the genomic analysis on a set of molecular and clinical data from over 10,000 tumors constituting to 33 cancer types, also known as the PanCancer Atlas, was finalized by researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health. In a collaboration between National Human Genome […]
Continue readingA new innovation has shown great success in treating different kinds of tumors in mice that do not react to cancer immunotherapy medications, and they are called checkpoint inhibitors. Y-traps aim at the same proteins as existing checkpoint inhibitors: cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) and programmed death-1 (PD-1)/PD-1 ligand (PD-L1). These proteins are known to assist […]
Continue readingNew technology developed by a research team at the University of Delaware could lead to the development of new cancer therapies, as well as other drugs. The technology enables DNA strands to be programmed into switches that turn proteins on and off. The results of this DNA programming have been published on March 12 in […]
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