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August 5, 2025

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Perfectly Timed Cancer Combo Wipes out Tumors by Supercharging the Immune System

Aug. 4, 2025 — Head and neck cancer, notoriously hard to treat, might have a new weakness—timing. Researchers discovered that syncing radiation and immunotherapy in just the right way can make tumors disappear in ...

Breakthrough Lung Cancer Treatment Supercharges Immune Cells With Mitochondria

Aug. 3, 2025 — Scientists have found a way to supercharge lung cancer treatment by transplanting healthy mitochondria into tumors, which both boosts immune response and makes chemotherapy far more effective. By ...

The 0.05% RNA Process That Makes Cancer Self-Destruct

July 30, 2025 — A group of Australian scientists has uncovered a new way to fight some of the toughest cancers by targeting an overlooked cellular process called minor splicing. This tiny but vital mechanism turns out to be essential for the growth of certain ...

The Plant Virus That Trains Your Immune System to Kill Cancer

July 25, 2025 — A virus from humble black-eyed peas is showing extraordinary promise in the fight against cancer. Unlike other plant viruses, the cowpea mosaic virus (CPMV) can awaken the human immune system and transform it into a cancer-fighting powerhouse, ...

Breakthrough: How Radiation Helps the Immune System Kill Cancer

July 23, 2025 — Radiation therapy, once thought of mainly as a local cancer treatment, is now showing power to awaken the immune system in surprising ways. Researchers discovered that combining radiation with immunotherapy can transform stubborn, unresponsive lung ...

The Fatal Mutation That Lets Cancer Outsmart the Human Immune System

July 2, 2025 — Scientists at UC Davis discovered a small genetic difference that could explain why humans are more prone to certain cancers than our primate cousins. The change affects a protein used by immune cells to kill tumors—except in humans, it’s ...

This AI Tracks Lung Tumors as You Breathe — and It Might Save Lives

June 30, 2025 — An AI system called iSeg is reshaping radiation oncology by automatically outlining lung tumors in 3D as they shift with each breath. Trained on scans from nine hospitals, the tool matched expert clinicians, flagged cancer zones some missed, and ...

Inside the Tumor: AI Cracks Five Hidden Cell Types to Stop Cancer’s Comeback

June 25, 2025 — A new AI tool, AAnet, has discovered five distinct cell types within tumors, offering a deeper look into cancer's inner diversity. This insight could transform how we treat cancer, enabling more ...

Shocking Brain Cancer Breakthrough: Electric Fields Supercharge Immune Assault

June 9, 2025 — A breakthrough study from Keck Medicine of USC may have found a powerful new triple therapy for glioblastoma, one of the deadliest brain cancers. By combining Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields), which ...

Early Driver of Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness

June 3, 2025 — Researchers have identified a gene that plays a key role in prostate cancer cells that have transitioned to a more aggressive, treatment-resistant form. The gene can be indirectly targeted with an existing class of drugs, suggesting a potential ...

Mindfulness and Brain Stimulation Could Reduce Bladder Leaks

May 30, 2025 — A new study suggests that mindfulness training and/or non-invasive brain stimulation could reduce bladder leaks and feelings of urgency in patients with 'latchkey ...

Machine Learning Algorithm Brings Long-Read Sequencing to the Clinic

May 30, 2025 — SAVANA uses a machine learning algorithm to identify cancer-specific structural variations and copy number aberrations in long-read DNA sequencing data. The complex structure of cancer genomes means that standard analysis tools give false-positive ...

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Novel Biomarker: Potential to Predict and Treat Skin Cancer Metastasis

May 30, 2025 — Researchers have identified C5aR1 as a novel biomarker for metastasis risk and poor prognosis in patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), the most common type of metastatic skin ...

Researchers Find Promise in a New Peptide Drug to Combat a Deadly Brain Cancer

May 30, 2025 — A lab-designed molecule developed and extensively studied could represent a breakthrough in slowing tumor recurrence in glioblastoma, an aggressive ...

Wilms Tumors: How Genes and Imprinting Pave the Way for Cancer

May 27, 2025 — A biobank for pediatric kidney tumors plays a key role in identifying hereditary causes of Wilms tumors. New insights gained with its help enable better risk assessment for affected families and ...

'Fast-Fail' AI Blood Test Could Steer Patients With Pancreatic Cancer Away from Ineffective Therapies

May 22, 2025 — An artificial intelligence technique for detecting DNA fragments shed by tumors and circulating in a patient's blood could help clinicians more ...

Common Antidepressants Could Help the Immune System Fight Cancer

May 22, 2025 — SSRIs boosted the ability of T cells to kill cancer cells and suppressed tumor growth in both mouse and human tumor ...

New Genetic Test Can Diagnose Brain Tumors in as Little as Two Hours

May 21, 2025 — Scientists and medics have developed an ultra-rapid method of genetically diagnosing brain tumors that will cut the time it takes to classify them from 6-8 weeks, to as little as two hours.The team ...

New Nanoparticle Could Make Cancer Treatment Safer, More Effective

May 14, 2025 — Scientists have created a new nanoparticle that could make ultrasound-based cancer treatments more effective and safer, while also helping prevent tumors from coming back. To make the therapy even ...

Combining Laboratory Techniques Yields Wealth of Information About Deadly Brain Tumors

May 14, 2025 — Clinicians have demonstrated that doctors can gain a wealth of knowledge about a patient's cancer by using multiple laboratory techniques to study ...

New Approach to Treating Aggressive Breast Cancers Shows Significant Improvement in Survival

May 13, 2025 — A new treatment approach significantly improves survival rates for patients with aggressive, inherited breast cancers, according to researchers. In a ...

Biologists Identify Targets for New Pancreatic Cancer Treatments

May 8, 2025 — Cryptic peptides, which are expressed in pancreatic cancer cells, could be promising targets for T-cell therapies that attack pancreatic tumors, according to a new ...

Important Step Towards Improving Diagnosis and Treatment of Brain Metastases

May 8, 2025 — Brain metastases often occur as a result of advanced cancer and, despite medical innovations, are still associated with a poor prognosis. Now, an international expert committee has taken an important ...

Reactivity to Tumor Antigens Is Important for TIL Therapy

May 8, 2025 — A team of researchers has found new insight into why some lung cancer patients do not benefit from tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte, or TIL therapy. Their findings may help improve future ways to ...

Childhood Brain Tumors Develop Early in Highly Specialized Nerve Cells

May 7, 2025 — Medulloblastomas, brain tumors in children, are thought to develop between the first trimester of pregnancy and the end of the first year of life. Researchers have now analyzed the genetic changes of ...

A New Class of Molecules Against Cancer Cells Refractory to Standard Treatments

May 7, 2025 — A new class of molecules capable of killing the cancer cells that are refractory to standard treatments and responsible for recurrence has just been developed. This crucial advance in the fight ...

Zinc-Transporting Protein Contributes to Aggressive Growth of Brain Tumor

May 1, 2025 — Researchers detail their discoveries about why the brain tumor glioblastoma is so aggressive. Their findings center on ZIP4, a protein that transports zinc throughout the body and sets off a cascade ...

Natural Killer Cells Remember and Effectively Target Ovarian Cancer

Apr. 28, 2025 — Researchers have uncovered a unique ability of a special subtype of natural killer cells in the immune system, called adaptive NK cells, to remember ovarian tumors and effectively attack them. The ...

A Drug Dismantles a Metabolic Barrier to Anti-Tumor Immunity

Apr. 28, 2025 — A new study has identified a specific mode of fat uptake by immune cells within tumors that serves as a metabolic checkpoint against anti-cancer immune ...

New Cell Therapy Shows Promising Results in Advanced Tumor Diseases

Apr. 25, 2025 — In recent years, cell therapies have developed alongside chemotherapy and immunotherapy to become a new pillar in the treatment of patients with blood and lymph gland cancer. In solid tumors, such as ...

Blocking a Surprising Master Regulator of Immunity Eradicates Liver Tumors in Mice

Apr. 24, 2025 — 'Cold' tumors are resistant to common immunotherapies. Researchers have uncovered a master regulator that can be manipulated to prevent tumor growth in ...

Apr. 23, 2025 — Researchers have discovered that expansion of mutant blood cells, a phenomenon linked to aging, can be found in cancerous tumors, and this is associated with worse outcomes for ...

New Research Points out a Promising Strategy for Treating Metastatic Medulloblastoma

Apr. 22, 2025 — Researchers reveal a strategy that helps medulloblastoma, the most prevalent malignant brain tumor in children, spread and grow on the leptomeninges, the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal ...

Discovery of FOXR2 Activation in Various Brain Tumors Refines Diagnosis to Improve Care

Apr. 16, 2025 — Scientists have implicated the FOXR2 gene in previously unassociated brain tumor types, with implications for diagnosis, prognosis and ...

Gut Microbes Release Cancer-Fighting Bile Acids That Block Hormone Signals

Apr. 15, 2025 — Bacteria naturally present in the human intestine (known as the gut microbiota) can transform cholesterol-derived bile acids into powerful metabolites that strengthen anti-cancer immunity by blocking ...

Gene-Based Blood Test for Melanoma May Catch Early Signs of Cancer's Return

Apr. 15, 2025 — Monitoring blood levels of DNA fragments shed by dying tumor cells may accurately predict skin cancer recurrence, a new study ...

Key to the High Aggressiveness of Pancreatic Cancer Identified

Apr. 15, 2025 — A study demonstrates the role of the Galectin-1 protein in the nucleus of the cells surrounding the tumor -- fibroblasts -- contributing to their activation. Activated fibroblasts promote tumor ...

New Strategy May Enable Cancer Monitoring from Blood Tests Alone

Apr. 11, 2025 — A new, error-corrected method for detecting cancer from blood samples is much more sensitive and accurate than prior methods and may be useful for monitoring disease status in patients following ...

Study Shows How New Antibody Therapy Works Against Ovarian Cancer

Apr. 10, 2025 — Research has shed light on how a new type of antibody treatment reactivates patients' immune cells to fight ovarian ...

Rapid Growth of Blood Cancer Driven by a Single Genetic 'Hit'

Apr. 9, 2025 — Researchers have explored the evolution of the genetic change that causes chronic myeloid leukaemia and show its ability to drive the ...

Master Regulator Blocking Immunotherapy, Paving the Way for a New Lung Cancer Treatment

Apr. 9, 2025 — Researchers have discovered that 'DEAD-box helicases 54 (DDX54)', a type of RNA-binding protein, is the master regulator that hinders the effectiveness of immunotherapy -- opening a new ...

New 'Smart' Immune Cells: A Breakthrough for Long-Lasting Tumor Destruction

Apr. 2, 2025 — Imagine a super-charged immune cell that can launch a focused attack on stubborn solid tumors -- a smart fighter that destroys cancer cells for days without tiring. Biomedical engineers have made ...