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Combining drugs that target BRAF and HSP90 shows success for melanoma patients
Scientists have tried combining drugs in an effort to prevent resistance development that eventually leads to cancer regrowth in melanoma patients.
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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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Two-drug combination proves effective for most lung cancers
New study suggests that using a two-drug combination of currently available treatment could be more effective for most lung cancers.
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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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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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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...
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Repurposing leukaemia drugs may prevent melanoma metastasis
Data from a new study shows that repurposing drugs used to treat leukaemia has promise for preventing melanoma metastasis...
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NPL launches Metrology for Medical Physics Centre, MEMPHYS
MEMPHYS will work closely with the NHS, academia and industry to enable the rapid and widespread implementation of a host of new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies.
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Therapeutic gel shows promise against cancerous tumours
Researchers have developed a biodegradable hydrogel scaffold system to release chemotherapeutic and immunotherapeutic drugs at the tumour site...
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First comparison of common breast cancer tests finds varied accuracy of predictions
Commercially-available prognostic breast cancer tests show significant variation in their abilities to predict disease recurrence...
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Cancer-fighting nano-robots programmed to seek and destroy tumours
Study shows first applications of DNA origami for nanomedicine...
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Cancer vaccine eliminates tumours
Injecting minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumours in mice can eliminate all traces of cancer...
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New approach identifies existing leukaemia drugs that show promise for Ewing sarcoma treatment
Scientists in the United States have discovered that two existing FDA-approved drugs, clofarabine (Clolar™) and cladribine (Leustatin™), have a powerful inhibitory impact on Ewing sarcoma cells in the lab.
