Researchers discover short form of a tumor-produced protein activates natural killer cells
A group of scientists in China has revealed a novel mechanism whereby a short form of IL-18, generated by caspase-3 cleavage ...
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Japanese researchers develop peptide preventing COVID-19 infections
Researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo and Osaka ... can bind to the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2 to prevent COVID-19 infections. The peptide, which is a short chain of amino acids ...
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Department of Surgery and Cancer
The Division of Cancer has a focus on the translation of high-quality basic research into clinical studies leading to stratified and personalised cancer treatment approaches, which will change NHS ...
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Multiple COVID Infections Linked to Increased Risk of Long COVID
A new study that identified 475 patients with post-acute sequelae of Covid-19 (PASC), also known as Long Covid, revealed that 403 of these patients — nearly 85 percent — had multiple Covid-19 ...
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The HSP90 Inhibitor Pimitespib Targets Regulatory T Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment
2Division of Cancer Immunology, Research Institute/Exploratory Oncology Research & Clinical Trial Center (EPOC), National Cancer Center, Tokyo, Japan. 6Department of Immunogenomic Medicine, Research ...
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Cancer death rates decline yet new diagnoses spike for some groups, says report
ACS researchers compiled data from central cancer registries and from the National Center for Health Statistics. "Continued reductions in cancer mortality because of drops in smoking, better ...
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Young women are almost twice as likely to be diagnosed with cancer as young men: ‘We’re seeing a change’
which involved data from the National Cancer Institute, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries. “We see for the first ...
The New York Times22d
Breast Cancer Rates Climb Among Younger Women
interim chair of medical oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The increase in breast cancer rates among younger patients is occurring as the incidence of other early-onset ...
The New York Times23d
Cancer Remission Like Catherine’s Does Not Always Mean the Illness Is Cured
Her announcement “certainly is good news and is reassuring,” said Dr. Kimmie Ng, associate chief of the division of gastrointestinal oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
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Kate Middleton Says Her Cancer Is in Remission. Here’s What That Means
Read More: Why Are So Many Young People Getting Cancer? It’s Complicated The National Cancer Institute, for example, defines two types of remission: partial and complete. In complete remission ...
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T Cells’ Ability To Prevent Infections Opens New Avenues for Developing Vaccines
Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and the Singapore General Hospital have discovered that T cells—white blood cells that can destroy harmful pathogens—can completely prevent viral infection, to ...