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Common Questions About the New Coronavirus Outbreak

05/16/2020Global Cancer News

Cancer patients are among those at high-risk of serious illness from an infection because their immune systems are often weakened by cancer and its treatments. Although most people who were treated for cancer in the past (especially if it was years ago)…

A combo of fasting plus vitamin C is effective for hard-to-treat cancers, study shows

05/16/2020Global Cancer News

Researchers have discovered that a fasting-mimicking diet could be more effective at treating some types of cancer when combined with vitamin C. In studies on mice, researchers found that the combination delayed tumor progression in multiple mouse models of colorectal cancer; in…

Boosting Dendritic Cells Helps the Immune System Find Pancreatic Cancer

05/16/2020Global Cancer News

Dendritic cells are part of the immune system's first line of defense against cancer and infections and is often used in immunotherapy to treat lung cancer. The question in study here is why immunotherapy tends to be more effective in treating lung…

PSMA PET-CT Accurately Detects Prostate Cancer Spread, Trial Shows

05/16/2020Global Cancer News

Traditionally, the most commonly used method of prostate cancer imaging is the CT scan or bone scan. The new use of PSMA PET-CT proved to be substantially more likely to detect metastatic tumors in men with prostate cancer than the standard imaging…

For Women with Breast Cancer, Regular Exercise May Improve Survival

05/16/2020Global Cancer News

A new study conducted by Rikki Cannioto, Ph.D., Ed.D., of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY adds to the existing evidence linking physical activity with longer survival in women diagnosed with high-risk breast cancer. Women with breast cancer who met…

COVID-19: Fighting viruses with viruses

05/16/2020Global Cancer News

Dr. Alan Parker's team at Cardiff University is studying how we can pit one viral threat against another and use viruses to destroy cancer cells. The idea of immunotherapy is not completely new, but the idea of utilizing the COVID-19 virus to…

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Breast and ovarian cancer drug effective in advanced prostate cancer

05/16/2020Global Cancer News

Cancer drug olaparib, originally licensed to treat some breast and ovarian cancers have been found to be effective in treating some men with advanced prostate cancer. The drug is designed to take advantage of a weakness in some prostate cancers'ability to prepare…

News digest – 15-minute prostate test, COVID-19 AI database, CAR T cell therapy and cancer ancestry links

05/16/2020Global Cancer News

This week the News digest reports on a test that identifies prostate cancer 'in under 15 minutes', cancer drug database adapted fro COVID-19, study that suggests more people with lymphoma could benefit form CAR T cell therapy, and that cancer type is…

Why Are Men More Vulnerable to COVID-19? Research Is Gradually Uncovering the Truth

05/14/2020AFCR News, Coronavirus

Michael Wang, MD., Ph.D., member of AFCR Scientific Advisory Board Early in February, Dr. Sabra Klein, a professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, noticed a sex difference in COVID-19 infections based…

Coronavirus: Ohio State study to see if pandemic affected cancer treatment

05/13/2020Global Cancer News

The coronavirus is affecting us all in many different ways, including our lifestyles and health care routines. A group of Ohio State University researchers will be conducting a survey to see how much COVID-19 has impacted the ability of Ohioans to seek…