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Hemp shows potential for treating ovarian cancer
Researchers demonstrate hemp's ability to slow cancer growth and uncover mechanism for its cancer-fighting ability...
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Improved method of delivering anti-cancer drugs
A new non-toxic method for delivering anti-cancer drugs to specific parts of the human body could mean the end of the severe side effects...
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Delivering cancer treatment on a nanodisc helps eliminate tumours
Novel platform for chemo-immunotherapy eliminated colon cancer in 85 percent of treated mice...
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Simultaneous chemo and immunotherapy is effective in metastatic bladder cancer
Researchers have discovered that giving metastatic bladder cancer patients simultaneous chemotherapy and immunotherapy is safe and that patients whose tumours have certain genetic mutations...
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Larotrectinib shows promise in paediatric patients with TRK gene mutations
A new cancer drug has proven safe and effective for paediatric patients with a rare tumour gene mutation...
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Combination immunotherapy improves survival in mouse models of mesothelioma
Combined treatment with two cancer immunotherapy drugs significantly prolonged survival in aggressive cancer malignant mesothelioma...
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Ionising radiation found to soften tumour cell microenvironment
When irradiated, less stiff extracellular matrices reduced cancer growth and migration, bolstering the case to further understand fractionated radiation therapy...
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Edelfosine prevents breast cancer cells from activating in the brain
Researchers have used computer modelling to find an existing investigational drug compound for leukaemia patients to treat triple negative breast cancer...
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Acoustic Cluster Therapy drives drug therapies to cancer cells
Researchers are testing the use of pulsed sound waves to direct and focus cancer drug therapies...
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Medicinal cannabis is safe and effective — it’s time to reboot research
Researchers are calling for medicinal cannabis to be properly established in our modern medical arsenal...
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H-DAPPs nanoparticles show ability to locate and treat breast tumours
Researchers have developed a fluorescing nanoparticle capable of finding tumours, lighting up upon arrival and being activated with light to generate heat to destroy the cancer cells...
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Researchers use novel methods to determine drug uptake for tumours
Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida have combined single-cell imaging of cancer cells in mice with mathematical modelling to establish which drug characteristics determine its efficacy.
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Slow-release hydrogel aids immunotherapy for cancer
An immunotherapy drug embedded in a slow-release hydrogel appears to be highly effective at killing cancer cells...
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Antibiotics may impact cancer treatment efficacy
Improper use of antibiotics may have an unintended consequence of hampering cancer treatments...
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Ponatinib is found to be effective against SCCOHT
Ponatinib is effective against SCCOHT, a type of ovarian cancer that mostly strikes young women and girls as young as 14 months...
