Boston, Mass. – The largest study ever of 77 deceased male ice hockey players by the Boston University CTE Center found that the odds of having chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) increased by 34% each year played, and 18 of 19 National Hockey League players had CTE. CTE is a neurodegenerative...
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WALTHAM, Mass. — BostonGene, a leading provider of AI-based molecular and immune profiling solutions provider, today announces a collaboration with Prisma Health aimed at advancing the understanding of rare tumors by characterizing the tumor microenvironment (TME), mutational landscape and host immune profiles of patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. In...
LEXINGTON, Mass. — Agenus Inc., a leader in developing immunological cancer treatments, today announced results from the NEST-1 study, an investigator-sponsored trial (IST) evaluating the combination of botensilimab and balstilimab (BOT/BAL) in the neoadjuvant setting for colorectal cancer (CRC), both those with Microsatellite Stable (MSS) CRC and Microsatellite Instability High...
LMU researchers have identified a signaling pathway by which aspirin can inhibit colorectal cancer. Munich, Germany — Colorectal cancer (bowel cancer) is the third most common form of cancer worldwide, with around 1.9 million newly diagnosed cases and 900,000 deaths every year. Therefore, preventive substances represent an urgent clinical need....
BOSTON, Mass. — BPGbio, Inc. a leading biology-first AI-powered biopharma that focuses on oncology, neurology, and rare diseases, today will announce new data from a phase 2a clinical trial of its lead candidate, BPM31510, in patients with advanced pancreatic cancers at the annual ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, being held January...
Brain Boost: Can a Coach Help Elders at Risk for Alzheimer’s? San Francisco, CA – Study shows cognitive improvements when participants keep active and socially engaged, control blood pressure and diabetes. As more medications move towards federal approval for Alzheimer’s disease, a new study led by researchers at UC San...
Jackson, Wyoming – Glioblastoma is one of the most serious brain diseases known. More than 45% of brain cancers are gliomas. Only half of glioblastoma patients respond to the FDA-approved chemotherapy Temozolomide (TMZ). Even for those patients, the cancer cells quickly evolve resistance. Most patients pass away within 12 to...
A national Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) study led by a Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center physician at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee has found that a course of radiation therapy to the brain after treatment for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer reduced the risk of metastases to the...
Tucson, Arizona – University of Arizona researchers have revealed new insights into one of the most common complications faced by Parkinson’s disease patients: uncontrollable movements that develop after years of treatment. Parkinson’s disease – a neurological disorder of the brain that affects a person’s movement – develops when the level...
Heidelberg, Germany – Certain brain tumors in small children contain cells that develop very similarly to normal brain cells and others that have already developed malignantly, depending on where they are located within the tumor. By analyzing individual cells, a team of researchers from the Hopp Children’s Cancer Center Heidelberg...