15+ hour, 32+ min ago   (617+ words) A landmark multi-institution study has revealed that the neighborhood a patient with metastatic breast cancer lives in may be written into the biology of the tumor itself....

15+ hour, 35+ min ago   (671+ words) Pediatric radiology is, by almost any measure, deeply meaningful work. Radiologists, technologists, nurses, and child life specialists spend their careers peering inside the bodies of sick children, catching diseases early, guiding treatment decisions, and supporting families through some of the…...

15+ hour, 35+ min ago   (431+ words) Photodynamic therapy, or PDT, has long been regarded as a precisely local cancer treatment: a photosensitizing drug is delivered to a tumor, light of a specific wavelength activates it, and the resulting reactive oxygen species destroy the illuminated cells....

17+ hour, 26+ min ago   (55+ words) Hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver cancer, remains one of the world’s most lethal malignancies, and its treatment options have changed surprisingly little over the past two decades. Now, a review published in Medical Oncology argues that…...

17+ hour, 42+ min ago   (69+ words) Small-cell lung cancer has long been one of oncology’s most punishing adversaries. It grows with astonishing speed, spreads early, and presents a treatment paradox that has frustrated clinicians for decades: at diagnosis, tumors melt away under platinum-based chemotherapy, yet relapse…...

17+ hour, 48+ min ago   (611+ words) One of the most detailed long-term portraits of children’s aerobic fitness ever assembled suggests a troubling pattern in the final years of primary school. Researchers tracking hundreds of Norwegian children from first through sixth grade found that peak oxygen uptake,…...

17+ hour, 53+ min ago   (55+ words) Pembrolizumab, one of the most widely prescribed cancer immunotherapies in the world, has long been dosed on the assumption that saturating the PD-1 receptor on T cells is the key to unlocking the immune system against tumours. A new translational…...

18+ hour ago   (120+ words) Adoptive T cell therapy has delivered striking remissions in some blood cancers, but its promise in solid tumors has been repeatedly undermined by a stubborn problem: the therapeutic cells do not last. Engineered T cells that flood a tumor and…...

18+ hour, 4+ min ago   (541+ words) A protein long considered a quiet passenger in the bloodstream has been caught playing a far more sinister role in liver cancer....

18+ hour, 36+ min ago   (72+ words) Aging has long been studied through the lens of DNA damage, protein misfolding, and cellular senescence, but a new framework published in Aging Cell argues that the story begins far higher up — in the air we breathe. Researchers led by…...