Houston, Texas – Patients with soft-tissue sarcoma treated with neoadjuvant, or pre-surgical, immunotherapy had very little residual tumor at the time of surgery and promising long-term survival, according to Phase II trial results published today in Nature Cancer by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. After treatment...
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MINNEAPOLIS – Dementia may be three times more common among people with essential tremor, a movement disorder that causes involuntary shaking, than the general population, according to research released today, March 6, 2024. The study will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 76th Annual Meeting (#AANAM) taking place...
Toronto, Canada – Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered a DNA repair mechanism that advances understanding of how human cells stay healthy, and which could lead to new treatments for cancer and premature aging. The study, published in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, also sheds light on...
TRENTO, Italy – “New windows of knowledge on ALS that pave the way for innovative possibilities in diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy.” With these words, researcher Manuela Basso summarizes the significance of a newly published study that deepens understanding of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), particularly the molecular mechanisms behind its slower-progressing...
Turku, Finland – A new study by the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital in Finland investigated the origin of ataxia in the brain of patients with stroke. A significant number of the stroke lesions in the patients were located outside the cerebellum. A recent study by a Finnish...
Salt Lake City, Utah – Scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U), the National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center for the Mountain West, have made a significant breakthrough in predicting the prognosis of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), a particularly aggressive disease. Their research, published in JCO...
Salt Lake City, Utah – For the first time researchers have identified patterns of risk for several different types of cancer in men with fertility problems and their families. The study, published today in Human Reproduction, one of the world’s leading reproductive medicine journals, found that families of men who...
Varna, Bulgaria – Melanoma is a fast-progressing skin cancer characterized by a high mortality rate after metastasis. Local chemotherapy could be considered a therapeutic approach only in stage 0 of progression (in situ melanoma) and in the postoperative phase after surgical removal of suspected skin lesions. For this purpose, drugs such...
York, UK – Scientists have developed a new, safe and effective way to infect volunteers with the parasite that causes leishmaniasis and measure the body’s immune response, bringing a vaccine for the neglected tropical disease a step closer. The breakthrough, by a team from the University of York and Hull...
Zurich, Switzerland – Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive form of blood cancer. It is caused by mutations in a large number of genes that are acquired in the course of a person’s life. One of these genes – the tumor suppressor gene TP53 – plays a key role....