Tag Archives: Cancer

[ad_1] Adults should get 150 minutes of strenuous physical activity per week, and children and teenagers average one hour of exercise per day, WHO says. The recommendation also applies to pregnant women and new mothers. Adults should get at least 150 minutes of strenuous physical activity per week, vital for …

[ad_1] Patients with locally advanced cervical cancer benefit significantly from an innovative radiotherapy technique co-developed by MedUni Vienna under the direction of Richard Pötter and Christian Kirisits. The technique provides better tumor control and produces fewer side effects. This is confirmed by the results of the prospective, international and multicenter …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 25, 2020 NASA’s historic twin study studied identical twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly and provided new insight into the health effects of spending time in space. Professor Susan Bailey of Colorado State University was one of more than 80 scientists from 12 universities …

[ad_1] A new CAR T-cell therapy developed by UCL researchers and designed to target cancerous tumors has shown promise in early children with neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer. For this proof-of-principle study, researchers at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health (GOS ICH) and UCL Cancer Institute …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 24, 2020 When it comes to brain scans to evaluate head trauma, detect brain cancer, and perform numerous other tests, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the best option, but MRI scanners are expensive, require special infrastructure, and are immobile . Now a team led …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 23, 2020 Men with cancer and COVID-19 may have a significantly higher risk of severe symptoms and even death than women who fight both, a research team from the University of Kansas Cancer Center has found. Anup Kasi, MD, MPH, assistant professor of oncology …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 23, 2020 Doctors and scientists are constantly looking for new disease genes that can help them understand why patients have undiagnosed medical problems. Often the first clues come from genetic tests that reveal a change or mutation in a gene that they see in …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 23, 2020 A study by Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) described a potential therapeutic cancer vaccine that liberates suppressed immune cells that kill cancer, allowing them to …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 23, 2020 According to new research from the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, T cells of the immune system have been reprogrammed into regenerative stem cell-like memory (TSCM) cells which are highly active and long-lasting “super immune cells” with strong anti-tumor activity. . Reprogramming …

[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 23, 2020 There are known differences in the survival rates of women and men with lung cancer. Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden set out to investigate the potential reasons behind this disparity, such as the presence of other underlying diseases and smoking …