Cancer treatments could benefit from being more like a sniper and less like a shotgun blast. A new technique is taking that approach, allowing doctors to attach drugs to white blood cells and sneak them past the tumor’s defenses for a targeted attack that doesn’t affect healthy tissue.
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Prescribing treatments for lung cancer patients often involves invasive procedures like biopsies. However a new noninvasive blood test could change all this. Better yet, it costs less than $30.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a technique that uses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to noninvasively detect cancerous cells, offering the potential of supplementing biopsies or maybe one day replacing them altogether.
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Scientists have developed a method that could make for better precision in killing of cancer cells. The technique uses a unique compound with the ability to illuminate cancer cells when exposed to near-infrared light, potentially acting as markers for surgeons taking on the task of tumor removal.
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Administering dosages of drugs to fight cancerous tumors can be a difficult balancing act. But a new technique may afford doctors an unprecedented level of accuracy, using 3D printed replicas of a patient’s organs and tumors to better determine the amount of radiation delivered.
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In the spread of prostate cancer, the SRPK1 molecule is critical. It enables a tumor to generate new blood vessels and begin to grow. Research conducted at the University of Bristol shows a specific compound can thwart its activity, potentially leading to new forms of treatment for the disease.
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With the aim of improving clinicians' interpreting of ultrasound elstography images for breast cancer diagnosis, researchers at Michigan Technological University (MTU) have created a fake breast – that's silicon fake, not silicone fake.
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Researchers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University and Pennsylvania State University have developed a novel technique of separating cells with the use of a gentle sound wave, with the possibility of the system being used to isolate rare tumor cells synonymous with cancer.
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Researchers from John Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a modified version of the bacteria <em>Clostridium novyi</em> that triggers an anti-tumor response in rats, dogs and humans. The breakthrough could complement existing methods to provide better targeted treatment of cancerous growths.
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Tumor tissue cultures grown in petri dishes make poor models of how real tumors grow, and more importantly, how they can be killed. That's why researchers have 3D printed Hela cancer cells, and created spheroids that grow and respond to drugs similar to how they do in our bodies.
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