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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh (PA, USA) have discovered that targeting regulatory T-cells could be an effective approach to treating cancers.
Researchers have developed an innovative technique to detect tumor DNA in blood with a greater degree of sensitivity and precision.
Leading experts devise new guidelines to score thyroid nodules and avoid unnecessary surgery and aspiration numbers for benign nodules.
Journal Articles
TET-activating strategies represent an exciting new avenue for cancer management, find out more in this editorial from Epigenomics.
Find out about how nanocytology may provide an entirely new platform for cancer detection and monitoring in this editorial from Biomarkers in Medicine.
Find out in this perspective article how cytotoxic and expanded NK cells induced in cancer patients may be turned into pathogenic factors if they enter immune-privileged microenvironments in susceptible individuals.
Brain and neurologic
Advancing immunotherapy for high-risk neuroblastoma patients: an interview with Juliet Gray
Can olive oil reduce risk of brain cancer?
Short peptides interfering with signaling pathways as new therapeutic tools for cancer treatment
Breast
Adipose tissue may reduce radiotherapy efficacy in breast cancer patients
ASCO17: Web-based reporting tool increases survival by up to 5 months
Colorectal
ASCO17: Global study sets risk-based standard for chemotherapy for colon cancer
Genetic test could identify individuals at high-risk of anal cancer
Sanger Institute series: uncovering the genetics of cancer - an interview with David Adams
Endocrine
Sonogram scoring system developed for thyroid nodules to reduce biopsy rates
Low survival rates observed for specific thyroid cancers following bone metastasis
Signaling pathways in medullary thyroid carcinoma: therapeutic implications
Gastrointestinal
Gallbladder cancer: results achieved and future challenges
Q&A follow up – A closer look at: diet and mouth and gastrointestinal cancers
Genitourinary
European Cancer Patient Coalition's 2017 pipeline - interview with Lydia Makaroff
What advances have been made in immune-therapy for renal cell carcinoma?
Gynecologic
Renovated (nondual) approach to endometrial cancer typing: endocrine and inflammatory issues
Could brachytherapy be more beneficial than surgery for penile cancer?
Head and neck
European Cancer Patient Coalition's 2017 pipeline - interview with Lydia Makaroff
AACR17: Immunotherapy efficacy may be influenced by the patient’s immune system
Hematologic
Sanger Institute series: uncovering the genetics of cancer - an interview with George Vassiliou
Researchers identify novel way to target chemo-resistance leukaemia cells
Lung
ASCO17: Web-based reporting tool increases survival by up to 5 months
Pancreatic
Could immunotherapy efficacy be enhanced by reprogramming tumor blood vessels?
European Cancer Patient Coalition's 2017 pipeline - interview with Lydia Makaroff
Prostate
MRI-guided focal therapy of prostate cancer
Increase in cancer rates attributed to poor environmental quality
Integration of multiparametric MRI into active surveillance of prostate cancer
Rare tumors
Report outlines burden of rare cancers in the United States
Brain tumors in Li-Fraumeni syndrome: a commentary and a case of a gliosarcoma patient
Thousands of cancer-associated rare mutations elucidated by new statistical analysis
Skin
Sanger Institute series: uncovering the genetics of cancer - an interview with David Adams
US Skin Cancer Screening Guidelines: Reviews and recommendations
Indoor tanning and melanoma: are gay and bisexual men more at risk?