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Health Insurance Disparities Contribute to Advanced Cancer Diagnoses Among Racial and Ethnic Groups
A study by the American Cancer Society reveals that lack of health insurance coverage contributes significantly to racial and ethnic disparities in advanced-stage cancer …
New Insights into Ovarian Cancer Resistance to Immunotherapy
Mount Sinai researchers have identified how ovarian cancer tumors manipulate their environment to resist immunotherapy and discovered that blocking the molecule IL-4 could enhance …
New Imaging Technique Provides Breakthrough in Head and Neck Cancer Prognostics
Researchers at the University of Helsinki developed a machine learning-based imaging method to analyze head and neck cancer at a cellular level. The method …
Long-read sequencing of diagnosis and post-therapy medulloblastoma reveals complex rearrangement patterns and epigenetic signatures
Medulloblastoma is a type of cancer that affects the brain and spinal cord. Recent advances in long-read sequencing technology have enabled researchers to identify …
Proinflammatory activity of VEGF-targeted therapy via tumour endothelial cell anergy reversal
Proinflammatory activity of VEGF-targeted treatment through reversal of tumor endothelial cell anergy
Cellular diversity of esophageal tissue revealed
Researchers have defined 11 subsets of cells found in the esophagus of mice, information that could potentially help clinicians diagnose or treat certain types …
Particles released by red blood cells are effective carriers for anti-cancer immunotherapy
A study has demonstrated that nano-sized vesicles released by red blood cells are a viable platform for delivering immunotherapeutic RNA molecules to suppress breast …
A new toolkit to engineer safe and efficient therapeutic cells
Researchers undertook a systematic analysis of the molecular building blocks used to engineer therapeutic cells. Their work resulted in a comprehensive rule book for …
Study reveals male sex hormones are new targets for cancer immunotherapy
A study examined the differences in intratumoral immune responses between male and female cancers of non-reproductive origin.
Vitamin E can boost immunotherapy responses by reinvigorating dendritic cells
Using retrospective clinical data and in-depth lab studies, researchers have discovered that vitamin E can enhance immunotherapy responses by stimulating dendritic cells in the …
Researchers load CAR T cells with oncolytic virus to treat solid cancer tumors
Researchers have devised an immunotherapy technique that combines chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy, or CAR-T cell therapy, with a cancer-killing virus to more effectively …
Tumors change their metabolism to spread more effectively
Cancer cells can disrupt a metabolic pathway that breaks down fats and proteins to boost the levels of a byproduct called methylmalonic acid, thereby …