News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 13, 2016
SAN FRANCISCO—Family caregivers of patients with high-mortality cancers may often experience high levels of depression and anxiety, results of a surve...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 12, 2016
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Many adolescent females are not being screened for pregnancy before beginning chemotherapy or undergoin...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 12, 2016
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SAN FRANCISCO—Patients may face challenges when trying to access palliative and supportive care services at cancer centers...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 11, 2016
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SAN FRANCISCO—New research suggests caring for a loved one with cancer may be more burdensome than caring for a loved one ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 10, 2016
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SAN FRANCISCO—Results of the VOICE study showed that training advanced cancer patients and their oncologists on how to com...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 9, 2016
Preclinical research suggests that combining a BCL2 inhibitor with a BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) can eradicate leukemia stem cells (LSCs) ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 9, 2016
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Factors related to blood sample collection and storage can have a substantial impact on the biomolecular composition of the sa...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 9, 2016
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Results of a phase 2 trial suggest that changing the dosing schedule can improve the efficacy of the malaria vaccine cand...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 9, 2016
Exosomes shed by acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells carry microRNAs that directly impair hematopoiesis, according to preclinical research published in...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 8, 2016
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A retrospective study has uncovered potential risk factors for early death in older patients with diffuse large B-cell lympho...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 8, 2016
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Preclinical research suggests a novel gene therapy may be effective against sic...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 8, 2016
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A cord blood transplant (CBT) may be the best option for patients with acute leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome who have mi...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 8, 2016
Photo from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Results from a phase 1 study have provided insights that may help researchers optimize treatment ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 7, 2016
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Bevacizumab nasal spray is no more effective than a placebo for reducing epistaxis caused by hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: September 7, 2016
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation to SB-FIX, a zinc finger nuclease (ZFN)-med...
