Tag: Cancer
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Targeting Growth Factor Improves Skin Cancer Therapies
A Northwestern Medicine study found that standard treatments for metastatic melanoma are not effective against Nodal, a growth factor protein critical for the skin cancer’s development, but also showed that combination therapies incorporating anti-Nodal antibodies are a promising alternative.
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Uncovering Genetic Roots of Pediatric Kidney Tumor
A Northwestern Medicine study has identified new genetic mutations in patients with Wilms tumor, the most common kidney tumor in children.
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DNA Transcription Sheds Light on Cancer Pathogenesis
In several recent publications, Ali Shilatifard, PhD, chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, examined how different aspects of transcriptional regulation are involved in cancer development.
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Caring for Cancer Survivors After the Treatment is Done
Carol A. Rosenberg, ’80 MD, has more than three decades’ experience as an internist, clinical researcher and medical educator, but it was an unexpected medical crisis within her own family that profoundly changed the course of her career.
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Exploring How Arsenic Combats Leukemia
A Northwestern Medicine study unearthed the mechanisms behind arsenic’s anti-cancer effects to show how the chemical compound could combat multiple types of leukemia.
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Potential Therapy Found for Incurable Pediatric Brain Tumor
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered a new potential drug therapy for pediatric brainstem glioma by targeting a genetic mutation found in patients with the rare, incurable cancer.
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Stopping Tumor Growth During Hypoxia
Inhibiting a ubiquitin ligase stops tumor growth during hypoxia, a common characteristic of lung and brain cancers.
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Platanias Appointed Director of Lurie Cancer Center
Leonidas Platanias, MD, PhD, has been appointed director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, a position he has served in interim since January.
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A Faster, More Accurate Way to Measure Tumor Growth
Northwestern Medicine scientists have found a new method to measure how patients with breast cancer liver metastasis respond to treatment.
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New Insights for Therapeutic Intervention in Melanoma
Mary J.C. Hendrix, PhD, revealed a variance in signaling pathways in embryonic stem cells and metastatic melanoma cells that may impact new therapeutic strategies in cancer.
