FDA says ALL Zantac must be pulled from shelves months after officials warned the popular heartburn drug is contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals The FDA told drugmakers on Wednesday to pull all Zantac and ranitidine – its generic version – from store shelves and online retailers in the US Evidence of a cancer-linked chemical called NDMA […]
Scientists have developed a new immunotherapy that eradicates solid tumours in mice without adverse side effects, according to a new study published today in eLife. The newly developed chimeric antigen receptor-T cell (CAR-T cell therapy) could soon be tested in clinical trials. In addition, the researchers used a new mouse model that could be used […]
Improved treatment of ovarian cancer in prospect? Vague and uncharacteristic symptoms of malignant ovarian cancer cause is often that the disease is only diagnosed very late. This leads to the fact that many people die from the disease. The results of a new study could create in the future perhaps remedy. They show that the […]
Cervical cancer screening rates in Japan were significantly affected in the years following the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, Tohoku University scientists report in the journal PLOS ONE. “Conflicts and disasters, and the social isolation that often follows, have a major impact on healthcare and lead to delays in the diagnosis and treatment […]
Immunotherapy that involves treating cancer with the body’s own immune cells, or those of a matched donor, shows promise in clinical trials for some patients, but not all. A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that the age of certain immune cells used in such therapy plays a role […]
Personalized blood biopsies, which scan patient blood samples for genetic traces of cancer, could potentially provide an earlier warning of metastatic cancer before it is picked up through standard monitoring. Researchers in the Gerstner Center for Cancer Diagnostics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have increased the sensitivity of […]
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to reveal apparent cellular distinctions between black and white cancer patients, while also exploring potential racial bias in the rapidly developing field of AI. Their most recent published research asserts that AI analysis of digitized images of cancer tissues reveals critical variations between black […]
New research from Kaiser Permanente finds that post-menopausal women with colorectal cancer were more likely to die from their disease or from any cause if they had low social support before diagnosis. The analysis of 1,429 women in the national long-term health study Women’s Health Initiative, which included patients from Kaiser Permanente and other health […]
In a world first, a woman rendered infertile by cancer treatment gave birth after one of her immature eggs was matured, frozen, and then—five years later—thawed and fertilised, researchers in France reported. A study in the journal Annals of Oncology published Wednesday describes how the baby boy was born to a 34-year-old French woman who […]
Banning tanning beds ‘would save lives and billions in medical costs’ by preventing up to 10MILLION cases of skin cancer in young people alive today, scientists say The research came from Australia, where indoor tanning beds are banned Experts say stopping young people using the machines would cut cancer rates More than 160,000 skin cancer […]
