NCI Press Release July 17, 2018 The largest coordinated research effort to study biological and non-biological factors associated with aggressive prostate cancer in African-American men has begun. The $26.5 million study is […]
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Breakthrough in Ewing Sarcoma Research
NFCR Press Release NFCR Writer David Perry July 21, 2018 In both mouse and culture-dish experiments, researchers at the Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center found that a new line of […]
NCI and VA Collaborate to Boost Veterans’ Access to Cancer Clinical Trials
NCI Press Release July 10, 2018 Veterans with cancer who receive treatment from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will now have easier access to clinical trials of novel cancer treatments, thanks […]
Hot and Cold: A New Pancreatic Cancer Treatment?
David Perry NFCR Writer June 25, 2018 It is established medical fact that either heating or freezing a cancer cell can kill it, but a new treatment out of the State University […]
New Immunotherapy Approach Leads to Complete Response in Breast Cancer Patient
NCI Press Release June 4, 2018 A novel approach to immunotherapy developed by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has led to the complete regression of breast cancer in a patient […]
NCI-MATCH Precision Medicine Clinical Trial Releases New Findings
NCI Press Release June 4, 2018 The National Cancer Institute’s Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice (NCI-MATCH) trial, the largest precision medicine trial of its kind, has achieved a milestone with the release […]
Potential Breakthrough in Cancer-Fighting Nanomedicine
The term nanomedicine, alluding to technologies with mechanisms and surface area characteristics sized in terms of billionths of a meter, has held promise for years, but breakthroughs specific to therapies have been […]
Research Identifies Potential Guidance for Gastric Cancer Treatment
ROCKVILLE, MD – Researchers from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital (TMUCIH) have discovered that gastric cancer tissue samples bearing mutation of a specific gene, […]