Cancer

  1. Health & Medicine

    Why are so many young people getting cancer?

    Diagnoses for several cancers before age 50 have been increasing rapidly since the 1990s. Scientists don’t know why, but they have a few suspects.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Cancer patients froze reproductive tissue as kids. Now they’re coming back for it

    Saving reproductive tissue from kids treated for cancer before adolescence could give them a chance at having biological children later in life.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Antioxidants may encourage the spread of lung cancer rather than prevent it

    Antioxidants protect lung cancer cells from free radicals, but also spur metastasis, two new studies suggest.

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  4. Genetics

    Almost all healthy people harbor patches of mutated cells

    Even healthy tissues can build up mutations, some of which have been tied to cancer.

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  5. Life

    Eating a lot of fiber could improve some cancer treatments

    A high-fiber diet, which boosts the diversity of gut microbes, may make an immune therapy against skin cancer more effective.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Vitamin D supplements aren’t living up to their hype

    Once seen as a supplement with a long list of benefits, vitamin D’s glow may be dimming.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    A new 3-D printed ‘sponge’ sops up excess chemo drugs

    Researchers have created “sponges” that would absorb excess cancer drugs before they spread through the body and cause negative side effects.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Tumor ‘organoids’ may speed cancer treatment

    Growing mini tumors in a lab dish, researchers can screen compounds to find promising combinations for treating rare cancers.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Discovery of how to prod a patient’s immune system to fight cancer wins a Nobel

    Two scientists share the 2018 medicine Nobel for identifying proteins that act as brakes on tumor-fighting T cells.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Cancer cells engineered with CRISPR slay their own kin

    Scientists can program the stealth cells to die before creating new tumors.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    Evidence grows that an HPV screen beats a Pap test at preventing cancer

    More research finds that a test for human papillomavirus infection catches precancerous cervical cells better than the standard test, a Pap.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    How to make CAR-T cell therapies for cancer safer and more effective

    CAR-T cell therapy was approved by the FDA in late 2017. Now, scientists are working to tame the cancer treatment’s side effects.

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