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New Drug Class Could Treat Range Of Cancers With Faulty BRCA Genes

Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and the pharmaceutical company Artios, explored the potential of using POLQ inhibitors in treating cancer cells with defects in the BRCA genes.

Lung Cancer Patients Should Be Screened For MET Oncogene Amplification, Research Suggests

"Our study suggests that patients with a MET oncogene amplification will not respond to immunotherapy alone and will require treatment with a combination of a MET inhibitor together with immunotherapy,"

Cancer Research: What’s Exciting The Experts?

Medical News Today spoke with a group of scientists and clinicians who specialize in the field.

Cancer Research UK Partners With Aleta Biotherapeutics On Blood Cancer Therapy

“There is an urgent need to develop new therapies that can help people with B-cell cancers, such as lymphoma and leukaemia, whose cancer has progressed after treatment with CD19 CAR-T cell therapy,”

Takeda Reports Promising Results For Lung Cancer Treatment

Mobocertinib is the first small-molecule TKI specifically designed to selectively target EGFR Exon20 insertions in patients with mNSCLC and demonstrated clinical proof-of-concept in these patients.

Moffitt Cancer Center Awarded $10.2 Million Grant For Lung Cancer Research

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths across the globe with 1.8 million deaths in 2020, according to the World Health Organization.

Flinders University Trial To Evaluate New Blood Test For Personalized Cancer Treatment

The research team will expand clinical trial studies to determine whether the test can be used for new indications such as monitoring the treatment of gastrointestinal cancers.

Early Detection And Treatment Is Key In Skin Cancer

“Prevention starts at a young age with sunscreen and sun health,” she said. “And the earlier these tumors are diagnosed, the better the chance of survival.”

Researchers Reveal A Promising Target For Designing Anti-cancer Therapies

Learning more about a single enzyme linked to many types of this disease could lead to more effective treatments.

Understanding New Resting Phase Of Stem Cells Could Help Put Glioma Tumors To Sleep

"That was an interesting finding from our results, that quiescence itself could be a different biological process," Plaisier says. "It's also a potential point where we could look for new drug treatments. If we could push more cells into that quiescent state, the tumors would become less aggressive."

Rebel Cell: Book Review

Geneticist and award-winning science writer Kat Arney takes the reader back to the dawn of life on planet Earth right up to the present day to get to the heart of what cancer really is and how by better understanding it we might one day overcome it. There is PTN's review of the book.

An Overview Of VR Gaming

As technology progresses, virtual reality gaming hardware has matured to the point that VR headsets now offer a great experience with little lag or latency induced nausea, two areas that had presented problems historically.