New Atlas

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Comprehensive new breast cancer risk prediction tool “could be a game changer”

Rich Haridy January 15, 2019

A new online tool has been developed that allows GPs to effectively calculate a patient's risk of developing breast cancer. The system is the first to combine a broad array of different elements, including genetics and environmental factors, to come up with a precise risk evaluation.

A new online tool developed to calculate breast cancer risk is the first to account for ...

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Method converting cancer cells into fat cells could block metastatic spread

Rich Haridy January 14, 2019

A fascinating study has revealed a method that forces malignant breast cancer cells to turn into fat cells. The research, currently demonstrated in mice, suggests the process could stop tumors from metastasizing and potentially make the cancer more susceptible to conventional chemotherapy.

The cancer cells on the left (in red) were converted into fat cells (marked in yellow ...

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Breakthrough study stops cancer hijacking immune cells

Michael Irving January 6, 2019

Cancer uses some insidious tricks to survive and spread in the body. But now researchers at Rush University and the University of California, San Diego have found a way to intervene in one of these schemes, preventing tumors from recruiting immune cells to help them grow and metastasize.

A new study has found a way to reverse one of cancer's crafty little tricks, where ...

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Cancer breath testing moves into large clinical trials

Rich Haridy January 2, 2019

A clinical trial is launching in the UK to test a new Breath Biopsy technology with the goal of finding molecular biomarkers in breath samples that can be used to diagnose a variety of different cancers.

The two year study will try to capture breath signatures unique to a handful of different ...

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Breakthrough study explains how the immune system puts cancer cells to sleep

Rich Haridy January 1, 2019

An exciting new study has uncovered how the immune system can keep cancer cells in a dormant state. It's hoped the breakthrough insight will offer new pathways for research into immunotherapy techniques that can essentially stop a tumor's growth for an indefinite period of time.

New Australian research discovered a novel type of immune cell can keep malignant cancer cells from ...

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Pediatric leukemia ‘super drug’ could be less than a decade away

Rich Haridy December 23, 2018

Building on several years of research into a protein responsible for leukemia, a newly published paper has revealed success in slowing the progression of the deadly cancer in mouse models.

Two new experimental pediatric leukemia treatments are to be turned into one single drug, with human ...

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Scientists use modified salmonella to smuggle cancer-fighting particles into the tumor

Nick Lavars December 20, 2018

A promising new cancer-fighting approach developed at Virginia Tech leans on the penetrative properties of a salmonella infection, which they’ve found can be used as a vehicle to smuggle important nanoparticles into a tumor in a huge abundance.

Microbes like bacteria could prove valuable tools in moving our cancer-fighting efforts forward

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Leukemia treatment unexpectedly discovered in eye drops developed for retinal disease

Rich Haridy December 19, 2018

New research has found a promising leukemia treatment in an eye drop already being developed to battle retinal neovascular disease. The research revealed the eye-drops, still in a pre-clinical stage of development, target the same gene that inhibits the progression of this aggressive blood cancer.

Researchers have found that eye drops being developed to treat retinal neovascular disease could be used ...

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Perfect cervical cancer screening results hint at the shadowy role of epigenetics

Nick Lavars December 17, 2018

Through a comprehensive trial involving thousands of subjects, a newly designed cervical cancer screening method has been shown to greatly outperform current screening methods in terms of both cost and accuracy, while also shedding new light on the mechanics at play.

Scientists have come up with a new screening method for cervical cancer that has proven 100 ...

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Unlikely drug pair combine to cut off cancer's energy supply

Nick Lavars December 11, 2018

Cancer cells are a hungry bunch, calling on relatively huge amounts of energy to feed their demanding metabolisms. New research out of the University of Basel describes a drug cocktail that shuts down this process, leaving the cancer cells to wither and die instead.

An electron microscopy image of a cancer cell produced at the University of Basel