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GE HealthCare Takes Key Role in New Consortium to Revolutionize Cancer Care
The €25.3 million project gathers 29 partners from top European academic and clinical sites.
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Walmart Employees to Get Expanded Cancer Treatment Options with the Mayo Clinic
The retail giant's action comes as more employers seek better care options.
October 2, 2024
Medical physicist Francesca Albertini has developed a new workflow. This allows the treatment plan for proton therapy to be adapted to the smallest changes in the body on a daily basis.
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Researchers Take Big Step Toward Individualizing Irradiation for Cancer Patients
Most of the differences that can be seen from one day to another are slight and occur on a scale of millimeters.
September 20, 2024
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New Drug Delivery System Could Help Mitigate Chemo-Induced Hearing Loss
When a patient receives cisplatin, the drug quickly finds its way to the cochlea.
September 11, 2024
Seth Cordts, a Tang lab PhD student, and other lab members study a microscope image of the microGrater. This new tool and its counterpart — the microDicer — will allow researchers to improve the consistency and quality of tumor samples, which have direct impact on the quality of the data from downstream experiments such as measurements of drug response.
Oncology
MicroDicer and MicroGrater Make Quick Work of Tumor Dissection
The microDicer’s blade looks like a mesh of vertical, interlocking hexagons.
September 10, 2024
Cancer patient Steven Manetta sits for a portrait Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, in his Lemont, Ill., home with four of the five medicines he takes daily to battle the nausea from his chemotherapy.
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Limits to Anti-Nausea Pill Coverage Wear on Cancer Patients and Doctors
Pharmacy benefit managers say their limits guard against overuse, and they offer workarounds to get more tablets.
September 10, 2024
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Radixactr Equipment From Accuray Company
Airbus Using AI to Improve the Availability of Radiotherapy Equipment
September 6, 2024
The biochip is used to detect biomarkers for glioblastoma, a fast-growing brain cancer.
Researchers Develop Affordable, Rapid Blood Test for Brain Cancer
August 28, 2024
Elizabeth Franzmann, MD, was co-corresponding author of a recent clinical trial testing an oral rinse to detect biomarkers associated with recurrence in head and neck cancers.
Can a Mouthwash-Based Test Help Predict Head and Neck Cancer Recurrence?
August 15, 2024
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HistoSonics Raises $102M to Scale Launch of Non-Invasive Histotripsy Platform
August 15, 2024
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Biden Pledges $150M in Research Grants as Part of His 'Moonshot' Push to Fight Cancer
Biden hopes to cut U.S. cancer fatalities by 50% over the next 25 years.
August 13, 2024
Dr. Kiran Nandalur, a radiologist with Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, is using MRI scans to help predict whether patients with intermediate-risk prostate cancer may have more aggressive cancer later on.
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An MRI May Help Doctors Predict More Aggressive Prostate Cancer in Patients
Knowing this could potentially help doctors determine if treatment is needed up front vs. using a method called active surveillance.
August 7, 2024
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Cancer Screening Estimated to Cost $43 Billion a Year in the United States
Costs paid to screening facilities were a major driver of the expense.
August 6, 2024
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Labcorp Gets FDA Nod for Liquid Biopsy Test
It allows laboratories to perform genomic profiling when tissue is limited or unavailable.
August 2, 2024
Shown here is a 3D bioprinted tissue construct used to replicate human tissue.
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ISS to Host Cancer Research Projects in Microgravity
All five research teams intend to work with ISS National Lab Commercial Service Provider Axiom Space
July 31, 2024
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FDA Approves Blood Test for Colorectal Cancer Screening
It is the first blood test to be approved by the FDA as a primary screening option for CRC.
July 29, 2024
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Hologic Completes Acquisition of Endomagnetics
It bought the UK-based developer of breast cancer surgery technologies for approximately $310 million.
July 25, 2024
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BD, Quest Working Together to Develop Companion Diagnostics for Cancer
The companies intend to manufacture and commercialize flow cytometry-based companion diagnostics.
July 25, 2024
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MEI Pharma Considers Winding Down Company Amid Financial Struggles
The CEO is stepping down and the company is discontinuing development of voruciclib.
July 22, 2024
Innoblative Designs Electrosurgical Device
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Innoblative Announces First-in-Human Use of its Electrosurgical Device for Breast Cancer Treatment
Its single-use, disposable applicator is designed specifically for intraoperative ablation of soft tissue.
July 19, 2024
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Danaher, Stanford University Building Smart Microscopes for Cancer Drug Screening
They'll use spatial biology coupled with AI to make it possible to screen more complex cellular systems.
July 15, 2024
Oksana Halak poses for a portrait with her son Dmytro, 2, at the National Cancer Institute in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 10, 2024. Dmytro is one of 31 young patients battling cancer who were relocated to the hospital from Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital after it was struck by a Russian missile this week.
Oncology
Russian Missile Attack on Ukraine's Largest Hospital Complicates Treatment of Kids with Cancer
The number of children being treated at a nearby facility has doubled.
July 11, 2024
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GE HealthCare Debuts HDR Prostate for MR Image Guidance During Procedures
HDR brachytherapy is a prostate cancer treatment that involves implanting radioactive sources into the prostate gland via needles.
July 10, 2024
Dr Juri Na, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth, studying brain tumor cells.
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Blood Cancer Drug Could Make Radiotherapy on Brain Tumors More Effective
It's able to inhibit cellular growth – and increase cell death – in meningioma samples.
July 10, 2024
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University of Cincinnati Opens Blood Cancer Healing Center
It will help address the needs of the 1.6 million affected by blood cancers in the U.S. annually.
July 3, 2024