But the party refers to the work as "eradicating tumours".
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A similar reduction in size (58%) pertained to lung tumours.
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One, at Columbia itself, is recruiting volunteers with cancer to see if attacking putative master regulators in their tumours works in cell cultures or when parts of the tumours in question are grafted into mice.
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Previous studies have shown that mitochondrial DNA has been able to transfer from body cells in infected dogs into the cells in their tumours, and hence to the tumours of dogs that were subsequently infected.
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Thus unchained, those cells can respond to tumours by attacking them.
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Thus unchained, T-cells can respond to tumours by attacking them.
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Yet the discovery of these tumours had prompted much unnecessary treatment.
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Whales, with ten times more again, should be barnacled with tumours.
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Using it caused tumours to shrink by an average of 1003%.
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Identifying genes from tumours normally means retrieving cancer cells via biopsies.
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Again, she found that mice with access to wheels had smaller tumours.
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The process he employs is one also used to treat certain tumours.
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Tumours, being rapidly growing tissues, need more food than healthy cells do.
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Some cells come loose and start new tumours of their own elsewhere.
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Every year he has several basal cell and squamous cell skin tumours removed.
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Tumours in mice vanished when they were given these CTLA-4 blocking antibodies.
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Tumours in mice vanished when they were given these CTLA-2563-blocking antibodies.
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I've helped people with cancer, AIDS, diabetes, tumours, stomach problems, you name it.
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BTG, for instance, produces small glass microspheres that deliver radiation directly to liver tumours.
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Testing the breath for metabolites doesn't require the tumours to have started shedding DNA.
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Humira's success has spurred efforts to make antibodies to attack tumours, Alzheimer's disease and lupus.
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Every day people appear with tumours bigger than any he had ever seen in Britain.
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Adalimumab's success has spurred efforts to make antibodies to attack tumours, Alzheimer's disease and lupus.
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But Dr Huch's twist was to grow not organs, but the tumours that afflict them.
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Such a death would be "quick and painless" and would not burst Mr Bucklew's tumours.
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Singapore researchers also recently uncovered key findings behind one type of breast cancer, fibroepithelial tumours.
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Doctors face it daily, reading scans blotted by tumours the way others scour market data.
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That could allow the immune system to be unleashed on tumours whilst sparing healthy tissue.
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In addition, some dental practices are now screening patients for tumours of the oral cavity.
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They looked at the DNA of mitochondria in 449 tumours in dogs from 39 countries.
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Interestingly, among the rats receiving the highest dose, only 2.2 per cent developed the tumours.
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This feature makes tumours genetically volatile and helps them develop resistance to treatment over time.
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There are big questions about whether CAR-T therapies can be extended to treat solid tumours.
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That can complicate genetic analysis of the tumours, by mixing healthy DNA with the mutated sort.
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Roughly 40 percent of the patients in Roche's study had tumours with high PD-L13 levels.
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These HER2 drugs act on a growth-promoting protein that is overproduced in HER2-positive tumours.
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In the future, DNA from patients' tumours is likely to be sequenced completely for diagnostic purposes.
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Thus began an era of testing different chemical compounds to see if they would kill tumours.
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Her course of Tarceva saw all the tiny tumours across her body shrink, one by 21%.
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NTRK fusions, for instance, trigger cancer growth only in about 0.5 to 1.0% of solid tumours.
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This specificity is seen as particularly useful in tumours that are near eyes, brains and spinal cords.
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The effort had mostly picked up slow-growing tumours which were unlikely to have had harmful outcomes.
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They have, for example, attempted to induce tumours in sponges that have no reported incidence of cancer.
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Genetically diverse tumours are like a gang of hoodlums involved in different crimes -- from robbery to smuggling.
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Tumours shed DNA into the blood, and these circulating fragments of DNA can be tested for mutations.
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It is also sometimes used to destroy the tumours themselves, particularly in places where surgery would be hard.
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Finding tumours earlier would permit them to be treated before they spread—improving outcomes and reducing medical bills.
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They found that those from well-exercised mice contained more immune cells than equivalent tumours from inactive animals.
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Levels of this molecule also spike during exercise—and it, too, helps immune cells home in on tumours.
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Foundation Medicine, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, offers a test for 300 genes that are often mutated in solid tumours.
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An active area of investigation is to predict which tumours respond to this and other therapies on offer.
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"Hippocrates used the carcinos (crab) and carcinoma to desribe a range of tumours and swellings," David and Zimmerman wrote.
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As they had hoped, the radioactive metal ions (and therefore, presumably, the drugs) concentrated themselves in the animals' tumours.
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When these nanoparticles are injected into tumours that are then zapped with X-rays they increase the damage done.
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The ability to grow accurate replicas of real tumours should help the hunt for better cancer drugs more generally.
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It is not always worthwhile if the tumour is still small, because small tumours do not necessarily grow big.
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But CAR-T cells, for now, are targeted at blood cancers, while ADCs have proven effective against solid tumours.
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But CAR-T cells, for now, are targeted at blood cancers, while ADCs have proven effective against solid tumours.
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Multi-million pound penthouse apartments have been built into the sides and rear of it, shrouding it like architectural tumours.
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"The tumours were pretty huge, the size of two cooking apples, three kiwis and a couple of [strawberries]," twigs wrote.
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Chemotherapies, like radiation therapies, are often used to mop up the cancer left over when primary tumours have been excised.
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It is fending off more than 13,000 lawsuits alleging (despite earlier scientific evidence to the contrary) that Roundup causes tumours.
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During lethal injection, Mr Bucklew's doctors say, the tumours would probably rupture and flood his airway, suffocating him for minutes.
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The hormone performed well, reducing the growth of tumours by 61% in mice that had no access to a wheel.
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In trials, it demonstrated a 79 percent risk reduction versus Novartis's $1.6 billion-per-year drug Sandostatin against neuroendocrine tumours.
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More than 6,000 patients treated at more than 1,000 institutions have had their tumours sequenced as part of this trial.
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So far, such genetic tests are used when planning therapy for 50% to 60% of solid tumours, according to Foundation.
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Many, including England's chief medical officer, Sally Davies, want cancer patients to be routinely offered genetic screening of their tumours.
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There is no question that blood biopsies will be at the heart of the future of tracking and profiling tumours.
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Some experiments with rats and mice found "very hot" liquids, including water, could promote the development of tumours, it said.
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Yet these tumours still contained many mutations that couldn't be explained by UV or tobacco, so what was causing them?
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They found that, while such cells were indeed present in the tumours of mice fed ordinary chow, there were 70% more of them in the tumours of mice given doxorubicin alone, 80% more in those of mice that were on the special diet alone and 240% more in mice that had been given both therapies.
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The 12 billion euro group plans to use any proceeds to strengthen its treatments for tumours and other general medicine offerings.
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Some new drugs throttle the growth of blood vessels bringing nutrients to tumours; others attack cancer cells' own DNA-repair kits.
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Elephants' chromosomes, by contrast, sport 40 versions of TP53—part of the explanation, surely, of why elephant tumours are so rare.
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Some 15-20% of breast cancer is triple-negative, meaning tumours lack three characteristics for which there are more treatment options.
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But he's found other chemicals that leave mutational signatures in lab-grown cells which haven't yet been detected in human tumours.
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This feature, one of the hallmarks of cancer, makes tumours genetically volatile and helps them develop resistance to treatment over time.
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Bucklew's condition has caused large, blood-filled tumours to grow on his face, head, neck and throat, according to court papers.
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WHO said most of the patients were women and children with cancer and brain tumours, or needing organ transplants and reconstructive surgeries.
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That hasn't stopped one hospital in Beijing doing a "man vs machine" standoff this month to detect neurological disorders including brain tumours.
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"From what I heard, some of the newest technologies can help doctors identify tumours at earlier stages, and that's great," he said.
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This technology led to the creation of neuroArm, that can perform precision surgery inside MRI scanners, such as removing brain tumours. 2.
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Using blood tests to detect genetic changes in tumours could allow doctors to discover more quickly when drugs are no longer effective.
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If tumours are to grow beyond a few millimetres in size they need to encourage new blood vessels to bring them nutrients.
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Developing the fimaCHEM platform, combining light-based, photochemical technology with its fimaporfin drug, PCI seeks to treat patients who have inoperable tumours.
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The genetic change in question, known as NTRK gene fusion, occurs only in about 0.5% to 1% of patients with solid tumours.
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The therapeutic effect has been described as dramatic but only about 0.5 to 1.0% of solid tumours are driven by NTRK fusions.
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Mutations in tumours are measured using a system called tumour mutational burden (TMB) and the primary group had TMB of 20 or more.
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Participants were screened once a year for three years, and appropriate treatment was offered to those whose scans suggested the presence of tumours.
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That tallies with an announcement the firm made earlier this year, saying that the robot will first be used to remove lung tumours.
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The new medicine is a so-called Burton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor that targets an array of blood cancers and potentially some solid tumours.
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This study is the first of its kind, and is intended to search for patterns that might explain resistance and susceptibility to tumours.
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The new class of immunotherapies, such as Roche's Tecentriq and Bristol-Myers' Opdivo, works by enlisting the body's defenses to fight the tumours.
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Both drugs are designed for patients whose tumours grow in response to oestrogen and whose cancer is not caused by the HER2 protein.
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This hope is based on the knowledge that tumours shed pieces of genetic material, known as circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA), into the bloodstream.
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Both trials showed benefit in using Zejula or Lynparza also in tumours with a wider range of genetic mutations that hamper DNA repairs.
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The hope is that when the engineered cells are returned to a patient's body, the editing will have improved their ability to attack tumours.
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On June 4th, his successor, Satya Nadella, announced that the firm would take over GitHub, the main source of such tumours today, for $7.5bn.
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This could result in problems with growth and the appearance of tumours on fish, for example, as well as potentially damaging the reproductive system.
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To try to understand why exercise does this, Dr Hojman and her team put under a microscope some of the tumours they had induced.
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Bayer is also developing compound LOXO-195, which is designed as a follow-on treatment for patients whose tumours have grown resistant to Vitrakvi.
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Immunotherapies, which boost the immune system's ability to fight tumours, promise to revolutionize cancer care, prompting a race among companies to develop rival treatments.
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Techniques to enable early diagnosis include a device designed to detect cancer on the breath; blood tests can track fragments of DNA shed from tumours.
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Rozlytrek aims to treat people with a rare genetic anomaly, called NTRK fusions, that drive growth in a range of tumours found throughout the body.
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Researchers will look at how oxygen bubbles travel from the stomach to pancreatic tumours and investigate whether a drink could provide a means of transport.
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These could work in combination with the first generation of immunotherapies, known as checkpoint inhibitors, which remove the blockade that prevents T-cells attacking tumours.
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Results from the GARNET study showed the drug elicited clinically meaningful and durable response rates when used to treat certain types of tumours, GSK said.
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By mapping the points at which mitochondrial DNA made the transfer it was possible to work out how the tumours are related to each other.
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This allows new sorts of investigation such as the NCI's MATCH trial, which matches patients to treatments based on the genetic changes in their tumours.
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For more news, click on * Novartis said data showed significant improvement in progression-free survival rates for patients using its Lutathera treatment baseline liver tumours.
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The team that did the analysis, led by Serena Nik-Zainal of the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, England, sequenced the genomes of cells from 560 tumours.
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AAA's flagship product, Lutathera, won European Union backing in late September against rare gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours, the likes of which killed Jobs, Apple's founder, in 2011.
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A more significant benefit is that tumouroids replicate the structure of the tumours from which they are derived in a way that ordinary cell cultures do not.
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But since they occur in a multitude of tumours, Roche sees potentially broad application for Rozlytrek, in conjunction with companion diagnostic tests from its Foundation Medicine unit.
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Some tissues (blood, lymph and skin, for example) are easy to get at, but many tumours are deep in the body, or in vital organs, or both.
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"Liquid biopsies", which will not only diagnose hard-to-get-at solid tumours but also monitor the progress of their treatment, are on the verge of reality.
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Also, the heterogeneity of many tumours, caused by progressive mutation over the course of time, is hard to sample by nipping out one bit of the tumour.
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The combination resulted in the animals' tumours shrinking by an average of four-fifths, as opposed to a half if they were dosed with the drug alone.
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The programme unmasked 226 such tumours in its first three years, but two decades later there was no evidence that this had reduced the number of children dying.
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With the natural killer cells gone, the tumours of all the mice, regardless of whether or not they could run in a wheel, grew to the same size.
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An enzyme called haeme oxygenase-1, which helps regulate immune responses, turned out to be protecting tumours from the attention of TILs in mice on the normal diet.
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Vitrakvi, which Bayer acquired from Eli Lilly's Loxo Oncology, has been shown to quell solid tumours that were triggered to grow by genetic changes known as NTRK fusions.
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Though he has tumours on both kidneys, Mr Riina remains subject to the strict regime designed to ensure that Mafia bosses cannot escape or communicate with their subordinates outside.
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Mr Bucklew says he would prefer to die in a Missouri gas chamber, where his "unstable, blood-filled tumours" would not be at risk of rupturing and choking him.
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Proton therapy originated in the physics labs of the post-war period when scientists first described how protons could radiate tumours with more accuracy than standard x-ray therapy.
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He is also, according to a recent profile in the New Yorker, an extravagant liar: about surviving tumours, losing his mother to cancer, having two doctorates and much besides.
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Last year it invested in 24 companies in areas such as cybersecurity for connected vehicles, radio therapy for cancer tumours, plant-based meat substitute and protection against financial fraud.
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However, by finding a way to identify antigens that are ubiquitous in tumours and detectable by T-cells, the research could aid development of immunotherapies that disable these defenses.
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As soon as the two left, the documentary's co-host Adam Pearson — who has a condition that causes multiple facial tumours — made a move to get the same seats.
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In October 2018 the British drugmaker entered a five-year collaboration with Lyell Immunopharma, another private biotechnology company that focuses on developing engineered T-cells targeting common solid tumours.
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In October 2018 the British drugmaker entered a five-year collaboration with Lyell Immunopharma, another private biotechnology company that focuses on developing engineered T-cells targeting common solid tumours.
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For example, mice used to test cancer drugs may have had their tumours grafted surgically into their bodies, and their immune systems knocked out with drugs or by genetic engineering.
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The accord gives Novartis access to four pre-clinical programmes that target regulatory T cell populations, inhibitory cytokines, and immunosuppressive metabolites in tumours, it said without giving any financial details.
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Robots that can remove brain tumours Developed in Canada during the Space Shuttle era, Canadarm2 is a robotic arm that is attached to the outside of the International Space Station.
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In May, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the expanded use of Zykadia to include the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic NSCLC whose tumours are ALK-positive.
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Bayer's Vitrakvi won European approval in September, the first drug in Europe to tackle tumours based on a rare genetic mutation regardless of where in the body the disease started.
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The European Commission said on Monday the probe will focus on niche medicines containing the active pharmaceutical ingredients chlorambucil, melphalan, mercaptopurine, tioguanine and busulfan for treating cancer such as hematologic tumours.
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Radiotherapists can create webs of gamma rays, whose intersections deliver doses high enough to kill tumours but which do less damage to healthy tissue as they enter and leave the body.
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In combination with the special diet, doxorubicin drove tumours down to a quarter of the size of those found in control mice—close to the reduction he had reported in 2012.
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Though it is useless at low doses—actually suppressing the immune response to tumours rather than enhancing it—at high doses it is extremely effective at promoting such an anti-tumour response.
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In the words of Justice Neil Gorsuch, author of the majority opinion, Mr Bucklew's cavernous hemangioma causes tumours comprised of "clumps of blood vessels" to grow in his head, neck and throat.
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The result is a diet rich in vitamin D, zinc and fatty acids essential to TILs' performance, while being low in the proteins and simple sugars that tumours make ready use of.
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Compugen's shares closed at $11.83 on Nasdaq on Wednesday after hitting a year-high of $12.80 on Tuesday when it reported data from a clinical trial in patients with advanced solid tumours.
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Oesophageal cancer is one of the most common tumours around here, and every day a seemingly endless stream of patients arrive in search of relief from the bulging blockages in their gullets.
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Rather than studying DNA extracted from tumours to look for mutational signatures, David Phillips, a professor of environmental carcinogenesis at King's College London, is coming at the problem from the opposite direction.
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Of particular interest was a compound in the plant's leaves that is known to hamper the growth of tumours as they attempt to improve their access to nutrients by growing new blood vessels.
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Zejula is currently approved as a maintenance therapy for adults with recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer and whose tumours have completely or partially responded to platinum-based chemotherapy treatments.
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Imfinzi belongs to the immunotherapy class of treatments that boost the body's own immune system to fight cancer, and tumours with high levels of TMB may be more visible to the immune system.
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The controversy in his case arises because a fraught method of execution, lethal injection, may be made even more complicated by the "unstable, blood-filled tumours" that plague his head, neck and throat.
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They also have a second smelling device in the back of their noses, the combination of which allows trained dogs to detect cancerous tumours — which is said to give out a specific odour.
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Immunotherapies, which aim to help patients' disease-fighting T-cells hunt and destroy tumours, have been shown to extend the lives of some people with advanced forms of cancer for months or years.
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Lutathera, which has also been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, harnesses a molecule not only to diagnose cancer but also to deliver treatment by hitting tumours with high-energy electrons.
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It is a significant milestone for physicians, patients and investors, who are trying to assess the competitive landscape as drugmakers race to develop better ways to fight tumours in previously untreated lung cancer.
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Mark Simon, a partner at Torreya Partners, a consultancy, says that is because it is well run and has, so far, "some very positive, provocative data from the treatment of a number of tumours".
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In the 1980s and 90s, researchers at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, trained mice to associate the taste of camphor with a drug that activates natural killer cells—white blood cells that attack tumours.
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" The drink the researchers are developing is filled with oxygen microbubbles, which they hope will re-oxygenate tumours "to make treatments more potent" and allow "radiotherapy and chemotherapy to deliver a knock-out blow.
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The disease, which usually appears as genital tumours in both male and female dogs, is believed to have originated in a single dog some 11,000 years ago and survived by spreading to other dogs.
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As he and his colleagues write in a paper in this week's Cancer Cell, they are trying to craft a diet that weakens tumours while simultaneously sneaking vital nutrients to healthy tissues, TILs included.
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Roche said Japan is the first country to approve Rozlytrek, also known as entrectinib, targeting people with NTRK fusion-positive solid tumours, across 10 different tumour types, including those with central nervous system metastases.
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BRUSSELS, July 13 (Reuters) - Belgium's IBA, which makes proton therapy centres that treat tumours, on Wednesday said delays to some of its projects would lead to lower-than-expected growth of its revenues and profits.
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And, of the mice injected with diethylnitrosamine, only 31% of those with wheels in their enclosures developed tumours at all—in contrast to a 75% tumour-development rate in mice lacking access to a wheel.
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The human immune system is equipped with a set of brakes that cancer cells are able to activate; the first immunotherapy treatment in effect disables the brakes, enabling white blood cells to attack the tumours.
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They are getting better at diagnosis, too, finding methods to study the weak spots of cancers in parts of the body conventional biopsies cannot reach, and also to pin down tumours that were previously unlocatable.
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Others warn that liquid biopsies aimed at DNA will never be sensitive enough for early detection, because early tumours may shed very little DNA, or shed it only occasionally; other molecules might prove more telling.
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The problem is, as the researchers explain, many of those small tumours are in fact benign, and many of the people being diagnosed, and then treated with potentially risky operations and drugs, are over-diagnosed.
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Antonio Criminsi, who, like Dr Bishop, works at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, observes that today the process of delineating the edges of tumours in images generated by MRI machines and CT scans is done by hand.
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Japan is the first country to give its blessing to Rozlytrek, also known as entrectinib, targeting people with NTRK fusion-positive solid tumours, across 10 different tumour types including breast, colorectal, neuroendocrine, lung and pancreatic cancers.
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"First, tumours with certain genetic profiles may respond to certain anti-cancer drugs better than others," he says, citing an example of a pancreatic tumour that responds better to a drug traditionally prescribed for breast cancer.
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Those patients, being tested in the first of typically three trial stages, were shown to have tumours with at least some level of PD-L1, a protein that helps the cancer evade an immune system response.
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RIYADH, March 16 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia required private sector companies to grant 14 days' sick leave to pregnant women and patients with respiratory, autoimmune and chronic diseases, or tumours, state news agency SPA reported on Monday.
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BEIJING, Oct 19 (Reuters) - China must brook no delay in cutting out "tumours" in the property market to ensure healthy market development in the long term, the Xinhua state news agency said in a commentary on Wednesday.
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But the new technologies that we are able to apply to these kind of studies now and in the future will help us understand the mechanistic underpinnings if in fact these tumours are related to RF radiation.
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One study presented at ASCO found that 21 of 129 patients responded to drugs that had originally been approved for use on cancers found in parts of the body different from where those patients' own tumours were.
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The European Commission approved Tecentriq with Abraxane for people with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer that tests positive for a protein believed to help tumours to evade attack by the body's immune system, Roche said on Thursday.
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By 2013, the Sanger team had used a version of this technique to extract 20 distinct mutational fingerprints from nearly 5 million mutations in more than 7,20183 tumours, covering 30 of the most common forms of cancer.
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One study published in 2012 by the New England Journal of Medicine estimated that from 1976 to 2008 over 1m American women received a diagnosis—plus painful treatment—for tumours that would not have led to clinical symptoms.
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When Dr Hojman and her colleagues exposed sedentary mice both to epinephrine and to interleukin-6, the rodents' immune systems attacked the tumours in their bodies as effectively as if those animals had engaged in regular wheel-runs.
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Novartis's Tafinlar and Mekinist combination shrank tumours in 63 percent of the trial's 57 people with BRAF V600E-mutation positive non-small cell lung cancer who had failed on chemotherapy, the company said, citing a Phase II study.
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The decision follows data presented at a medical meeting last year showing that Keytruda could help lung cancer patients whose tumours have a high level of a protein called PD-L1, which makes them more receptive to immunotherapy.
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But recently developed "immuno-oncology" drugs, which co-opt the immune system to fight tumours, are so effective that, in around a fifth of cases, there is talk among experts that the patients involved have actually been cured.
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In a test against three expert human radiologists working together, Enlitic's system was 50% better at classifying malignant tumours and had a false-negative rate (where a cancer is missed) of zero, compared with 7% for the humans.
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In particular, IBM has gone into partnership with Pfizer, an American pharma company, with the intention of accelerating drug discovery in immuno-oncology—a promising area of cancer therapy that encourages the body's own immune system to fight tumours.
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While positive news for Roche, the Basel-based company has been beaten to the regulatory finish line in this emerging area: German drugmaker Bayer's Vitrakvi has already won U.S. backing for solid tumours that test positive for NTRK genes.
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It also found big differences in rates of development of new cancer drugs for various types of the disease: 22016 drugs for breast cancer were licensed in Europe from 210 to 2177, but none at all for brain tumours.
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It is currently preparing a final test phase for its key Betalutin drug candidate, a treatment for Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) designed to attach itself to tumours in a novel way before killing them with a dose of radiation.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug's use as a first-line maintenance therapy for patients, whose cancer had spread beyond the pancreas and whose tumours had not progressed following chemotherapy of at least 16 weeks.
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EMA, for its part, has said it was swayed in favour of Vitrakvi by trials involving 102 patients that showed that the drug reduced the size of tumours in 67% of cases, and by the speed of tumour shrinkage.
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Along with existing drugs tied to particular mutations, and a newly emerging class of pharmaceuticals that mobilise the immune system against tumours, master-regulator blasters could provide a third form of precise molecular attack upon this most feared of diseases.
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But there is already a consensus on the technology's benefits for certain types of patients, such as children and young adults with spinal cord and base of brain tumours and a growing belief that it could also limit side effects.
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The technology at the time was not good enough to tackle tumours deep inside the body, however, and in the late 1980s Jongen was urged by an oncologist to "revolutionise cancer therapy" by applying his cyclotron technology to proton therapy.
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But there is already a consensus on the technology's benefits for certain types of patients, such as children and young adults with spinal cord and base of the brain tumours, with a growing belief that it could also limit side effects.
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At the moment, methods of oxygenating pancreatic tumours (such as breathing in pure oxygen or injecting liquids filled with oxygen direct to the tumour site) are effective but can have serious side effects, including damage to the lungs and nervous system.
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The adorable pic, shared on Wednesday, struck a chord with lots of other people, who retweeted it more than 100,000 times (the owner wrote in another tweet that "he deserves to be twitter famous he had 7 fatty tumours taken out").
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The implication of this shift in thinking is that the best treatment for, say, colorectal cancer may turn out to be designed and approved for use against tumours in an entirely different part of the body, such as the breast.
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This would be roughly akin to the approval of cancer drugs that work on, say, only 1 in 5 people with a broadly defined type of tumour, but in 4 of 5 those people whose tumours include a specific genetic signature.
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While all mice injected under the skin with melanoma cells developed that cancer, the tumours in animals which had had access to a running wheel were 61% smaller after six weeks than were those in mice that had been unable to exercise.
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Intriguingly, the first few oesophageal tumours from Kenya don't appear to have any signatures from PAHs, potentially putting smoky rural kitchens like Emily's in the clear, although it's important to stress that only a small fraction of cases have been analyzed so far.
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One of the most revealing, reported by Elizabeth Repasky of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo in 2013, found that tumours grew faster in mice housed at room temperature (22°C), as they are normally, than in their preferred 30°C.
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Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb have dominated the first wave of immunotherapy with their "checkpoint inhibitors", which release brakes in the immune system so that it can attack tumours, while Roche, AstraZeneca and Pfizer are trying to catch up by launching rival versions.
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In the study, the Basel-based company said Tecentriq showed "significant improvement" in survival in the lung cancer patients, regardless of whether their tumours produced high levels of a protein, called PD-L1, that may help the disease evade immune system detection.
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Dr Kaelin, who works at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, was studying an inherited genetic illness called von Hippel-Lindau's disease which greatly increases the likelihood of certain tumours (sometimes benign, sometimes malignant, affecting organs including the kidneys and eyes) developing.
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Dr Kaelin, who works at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, was studying an inherited genetic illness called von Hippel-Lindau's disease which greatly increases the likelihood of certain tumours (sometimes benign, sometimes malignant, affecting organs including the kidneys and eyes) developing.
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Straight away, Stratton saw the potential for the technology to revolutionise our understanding of the genetic changes inside individual tumours, setting the Sanger Institute's huge banks of DNA-sequencing machines in motion to read every single letter of DNA in a tumour.
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Intriguingly, the first few oesophageal tumours from Kenya don't appear to have any signatures from PAHs, potentially putting smoky rural kitchens like Emily's in the clear, although it's important to stress that only a small fraction of cases have been analysed so far.
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Thyroid cancer Researchers documented in The New England Journal of Medicine last year that Australia, like other nations including the United States, has experienced a recent tripling of the numbers of people diagnosed with thyroid cancer - many of them with very small tumours.
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Allison, professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in the United States, worked on a protein known as CTLA-4 and realised during his work that if this could be blocked, a brake would be released, unleashing immune cells to attack tumours.
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To make all this possible, medical physicists produce beams of X-rays, gamma radiation, neutrons and, increasingly, protons; they have ever more sophisticated ways of ensuring that these cell-damaging energies are delivered to the tumours being targeted, rather than to healthy tissue nearby.
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Whereas in past decades, cancer was diagnosed, classified and treated according to the specific types of tissues it affected — breast cancer, for example, has traditionally been treated with drugs developed specifically for tumours in the breast — modern medicine takes a decidedly more personalised approach.
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The drug was studied in a large Phase III trial of people with a type of breast cancer known as HER2-negative, whose tumours had already spread to other parts of the body and who had inherited a mutation in a gene known as BRCA.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Tecentriq mixed with the chemotherapy Abraxane to treat inoperable, locally advanced or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) in people whose tumours express PD-L1, a protein that may help cancers avoid detection by the immune system.
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When the team terminated the experiment, they found that both the rodents which had been starved and those which had been fed the special diet developed tumours which were only two-fifths of the size of those found in the mice on the ordinary diet.
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ZURICH, June 29 (Reuters) - The European Commission has approved expanding the use of Zykadia (ceritinib) to include the first-line treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumours are anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive, Swiss drugmaker Novartis said on Thursday.
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Lawyers for Russell Bucklew, 50, have argued that because of a congenital condition called cavernous hemangioma that leaves him with blood-filled tumours on his body, the lethal injection could cause undue agony in violation of the U.S. Constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.
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OK, so a can of Coke isn't going to cure cancer but researchers at the University of Oxford and Ulster University working for the cancer research charity are currently developing a drink filled with oxygen bubbles that could make tumours more receptive to radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
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Drugmakers like Novartis and Pfizer are increasing using biomarker-driven drugs to treat patients with rare tumours -- only about 3%-4% of lung cancer patients have the MET exon14 skipping mutation -- that have proven very difficult for oncologists to fight with their existing arsenal of medicines.
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Drugmakers like Novartis and Pfizer are increasing using biomarker-driven drugs to treat patients with rare tumours — only about 3%-4% of lung cancer patients have the MET exon14 skipping mutation — that have proven very difficult for oncologists to fight with their existing arsenal of medicines.
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The FDA nod was based on a trial that showed the benefit of using Zejula to treat tumours whether or not the women had mutated BRCA genes which hamper DNA repairs, but also in women with a wider range of genetic mutations, grouped together under the term homologous recombination deficiency (HRD).
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So here we have a study that found fairly weak evidence of small effects of mobile phone radiation on tumours in rats, where it's plausible that the effects are even smaller than what was found, and where it's not (yet) clear how far any such results are applicable to humans.
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Helmy Eltoukhy of Guardant says the firm is "agnostic" about the markers it seeks in the blood, meaning that its researchers will not look just for DNA from tumours—if the data suggest that RNA (a relative of DNA) or proteins provide the telltale fingerprint, then that is what they will look at.
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"I am a very private person as u all know and I have gone back and forth in my mind whether to share that this year I have been recovering from laparoscopic surgery to remove six fibroid tumours from my uterus," she wrote in the caption to a video of herself dancing around a pole.
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"It's the last thing any of us expected and we don't know what's going to happen next (we're waiting for another scan) but what I do know is that she's got more balls than anyone I've ever met and if it's tumours vs Laura I know who my money is on," Nicola wrote in a Facebook post in October.
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The implication of this change of viewpoint is that the best treatment for, say, colorectal cancer may turn out to be something already approved for use against tumours in an entirely different part of the body, such as the breast (pictured above, in a magnetic-resonance-imaging, or MRI, scan; the tumour is in the right-hand breast, from the reader's point of view).
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