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Scientists Find New Ways to Make Cancer Cells Destroy Themselves
Cancer cells have developed ways to survive conditions that would normally damage or destroy them. Now, researchers are investigating several ways to exploit those vulnerabilities, with experiments revealing how physical pressure, targeted protein inhibition and tiny nanoparticles can trigger cancer cell death. The findings come from separate research projects, but they point toward a fascinating…
Scientists Turned A Probiotic Into A Tiny Chemotherapy Factory
A bacterium commonly used as a probiotic has been genetically redesigned to manufacture chemotherapy inside tumors instead of sending the drug throughout the body. In experiments involving mice with colorectal cancer, the engineered bacteria helped three of seven treated tumors completely regress, while also triggering an immune response that affected cancer beyond the original treatment…
Scientists Found a Possible Weak Spot in Parkinson’s Disease, And a Cancer Drug May Already Target It
Parkinson’s disease has always presented researchers with a brutal problem: by the time symptoms become obvious, damage has already been spreading through the brain for years. Now, scientists at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have identified a pair of proteins that appear to help harmful alpha-synuclein move from neuron to neuron, and blocking them…
Three-Year-Old’s Cancer Vanishes After Just Two Doses Of Experimental Treatment
A three-year-old boy had already endured chemotherapy and surgery when his cancer returned and spread beyond his liver. The disease had reached his lungs, with doctors also concerned that it may have spread to his bones. After conventional treatment failed to stop it, his medical team turned to an experimental approach that uses genetically modified…
China Becomes A New Destination For Patients Seeking Advanced Cancer Care
A cancer diagnosis can force patients to make choices they never imagined. For a growing number of people, that choice now includes boarding a plane and traveling thousands of miles in search of advanced treatment. Shanghai has become an unexpected destination for international cancer patients seeking CAR-T cell therapy, a highly personalized treatment that uses…
New NHS Injection Cuts Cancer Treatment Time From An Hour To Minutes
A cancer treatment that can keep patients in hospital for up to an hour is being converted into an injection that takes just a few minutes to administer. The NHS is now rolling out injectable nivolumab across England, giving eligible patients a much quicker way to receive an immunotherapy treatment already used against a wide…
FDA Approves New Pancreatic Cancer Drug After Trial Nearly Doubled Median Survival
A new treatment has been approved for one of the most difficult cancers to treat, and the clinical trial results behind the decision are already drawing major attention. The FDA has approved Rasonque, also known as daraxonrasib, for certain adults with advanced pancreatic cancer after a study found that patients taking the drug had a…
Doctors Are Destroying Tumors Inside MRI Scanners Without Making a Single Incision
Australia has quietly achieved something that sounds like it belongs in the future of medicine. At a hospital in Sydney, doctors are now destroying certain cancer tumors by freezing them from the inside while watching the entire procedure unfold through an MRI scanner. There are no large surgical cuts, no operating-room incisions, and in some…
This Scientist Turned Grief Into A Cancer Breakthrough
The moment that changed everything did not happen in a laboratory or during a breakthrough experiment. It happened quietly, at home, in the middle of a family crisis that would alter the course of one woman’s life forever. Fresh out of college, with a degree in physics and a clear plan for her future, Dr.…
The Cancer With a 97% Death Rate Just Lost Its ‘Untreatable’ Status
Pancreatic cancer has earned a terrifying reputation as a disease that simply cannot be stopped. It moves fast, hides well, and has resisted almost every drug thrown its way. But the label of “untreatable” might finally be losing its grip. A groundbreaking study out of Spain has managed to do what was once thought impossible,…