Tag: Cancer
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Signaling Pathway May Help Predict Immunotherapy Response in Glioblastoma
Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered a biological mechanism that helps explain why most patients with glioblastoma fail to respond to immunotherapy, according to a study published in Nature Communications.
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Radiotherapy Reprograms Immune Response in Rare Skin Cancer
A new Northwestern Medicine study has discovered how radiotherapy alters the immune environment within cutaneous T-cell lymphoma tumors, revealing new molecular signatures associated with long-term treatment response and tumor recurrence.
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Blood Cell ‘Nurseries’ Upend Understanding of Human Physiology
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that one of the body’s most fundamental biological processes — how red blood cells are made — works differently in humans than previously thought, according to a new study published in Nature Genetics.
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Immunotherapy Strategy Shows Promise for Deadly Brain Cancer
A new immunotherapy strategy has shown promise in targeting one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of brain cancer, according to a new study published in Nature.
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Combination Therapy Shows Promise in High-Risk Prostate Cancer, Study Finds
A large international clinical trial has found that adding the drug apalutamide to standard hormone therapy before and after prostate cancer surgery significantly improves outcomes for men with high-risk disease, according to details published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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Identifying Immune Pathways Driving Aggressive Brain Cancers
A new study has uncovered a key mechanism that helps one of the deadliest brain cancers evade the immune system, according to the study published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Immune Biomarkers May Predict Response to Bladder Cancer Treatment
A Northwestern Medicine study has offered new clues as to why immunotherapy works well for some bladder cancer patients but fails for others, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Blood Test May Predict Immunotherapy Response in Head and Neck Cancer
A new Northwestern Medicine study suggests that a simple blood test could help identify which patients with head and neck cancer are most likely to benefit from immunotherapy, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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Overlooked DNA Structures Help Organize the Genome
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that little-studied DNA structures play a central role in organizing the human genome and controlling gene activity, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Asthma Drug Improves Treatment of Aggressive Cancers in Preclinical Studies
A drug widely used to treat asthma and allergies may also help fight aggressive cancers, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study that uncovered how tumors hijack common white blood cells to evade immunotherapy.
