Knock out a mutated gene that’s a driving force behind pancreatic cancer and a few cancer cells quietly remain behind, where they hunker down in the resulting scar tissue and nibble on themselves to survive before roaring back as resistant pancreatic cancer.
“Therapies that target specific, mutated genes can have an incredible initial impact. Cancerous lesions disappear, but they all come back, all of them,” said Giulio Draetta...
MD Anderson faculty received more than $25 million last month from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to support...
Twist, Snail, Slug. They may sound like words in a children’s nursery rhyme, but they are actually the exotic names given to proteins that...
When a man is diagnosed with prostate cancer, a host of tools can be used to determine the type and extent of his disease. These tools include a basic PSA blood test, digital rectal exam, tissue biopsy, and a Gleason Score – a mathematical score based on tissue analysis that predicts whether the cancer is aggressive or not and helps doctors choose the most appropriate treatment.
The lowest Gleason score of 6 is assigned to cancers...
Breast conserving therapy (BCT) may offer better survival rates over mastectomy to women with early-stage, hormone-receptor positive disease...
A new breast cancer vaccine candidate, (GP2), provides further evidence of the potential of immunotherapy in preventing disease recurrence...
A tailor-made suit sewn to fit a customer’s exact measurements almost always fits better than one purchased “off the rack.”
Researchers...
Stephen Hahn, M.D., an international leader in the field of radiation oncology, has been named division head of Radiation Oncology and chair...
Parents of twins often tell them apart through subtle differences such as facial expression, moles, voice tone and gait. Similarly, physicians...