Tag: Cancer

New York: Scientists who have pioneered the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict whether chemotherapy will be successful, can now determine which lung-cancer patients will benefit from expensive immunotherapy. Researchers used AI to find previously unseen changes in patterns in CT scans taken when the lung cancer is first diagnosed compared to scans taken […]

New York: Researchers from Duke University in the US, have created a new cancer-detecting tool, which uses tiny circuits made up of DNA to identify cancer cells by the molecular signatures on their surface. According to the study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the research team fashioned the simple circuits from […]

New York: People living with cancer are more than twice as likely to die of a stroke, compared to the general population say, researchers, adding that the risk increases with time. Cancers of the breast, prostate or colorectum were the type most commonly associated with fatal stroke, said the study published in the journal Nature […]

New Delhi: Men increase the risk of developing testicular cancer by 36 per cent by regularly smoking cannabis, a media report said quoting a US study. US experts have listed their findings in the monthly journal of the American Medical Association, saying, “Regular marijuana use was associated with the development of testicular germ cell tumours. […]

London: Shedding new light on why some people develop cancer while others do not, a new study has found that a person’s risk of developing cancer is affected by genetic variations in regions of DNA that do not code for proteins, previously dismissed as “junk DNA”. This study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, […]

Tokyo: If you thought one-two drinks a day would not do any harm, think again. Researchers in Japan have found that even light alcohol consumption might increase cancer risk. In the study published in the journal Cancer, the overall cancer risk appeared to be the lowest at zero alcohol consumption. The elevated risk appeared to […]

Chicago: Head and neck cancer patients who eat foods high in antioxidants and other micronutrients prior to diagnosis may reduce their risks of developing chronic nutrition impact symptoms up to one year after being diagnosed with head or neck cancer. According to a study posted on the website of the University of Illinois (UI) on Monday, […]

Sydney: There is good news for obese and overweight people as researchers have found that higher body weight or high body mass index (BMI) could increase the chance of beating certain cancers. Focusing on clinical trials of atezolizumab, a common immunotherapy treatment for non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), the researchers from Flinders University found improved responsiveness […]

New York: Proton therapy leads to significantly lower risk of side effects for cancer patients when compared with traditional radiation, researchers have found. For the findings, published in the journal JAMA Oncology, researchers from University of Pennsylvania analysed if the cancer patients going through radiation therapy alongside chemotherapy faced severe side effects in a span […]

San Francisco: In a ray of hope for those who have to go for breast cancer screening and even for healthy women who get false alarms during digital mammography, an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Google model has left radiologists behind in spotting breast cancer by just scanning the X-ray results. Reading mammograms is a difficult task, […]

New York: A new mathematical framework on molecular interactions will make it easier and more efficient for scientists to develop new medicines and other therapies for diseases such as cancer, HIV and autoimmune diseases, say researchers. The mathematical framework simulates the effects of the key parameters that control interactions between molecules that have multiple binding […]

London: Certain class of cancer drugs could be used in the future to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), say, researchers, adding that the drugs could be developed to stop the progression of the disease and promote healing within the lungs. COPD makes breathing progressively more difficult for millions of people around the world, and the […]

London: Using a computer algorithm, researchers have identified a promising new treatment for neuroblastoma– a form of cancer in children, which occurs in specialised nerve cells in the sympathetic nervous system and may be life-threatening. In the long term the discovery, published in the journal Nature Communications, may result in a new form of treatment for […]

New Delhi: Researchers in Denmark found that overweight and obesity were associated with higher risks of several common cancers and according to health experts here obesity may worsen the cancer survivorship, including quality of life. According to the study, published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, there were 20,706 cancers among 313,321 adults diagnosed with […]

London:  Researchers have developed a method based on artificial intelligence (AI) for diagnosis and grading of prostate cancer. The AI-system has the potential to solve one of the bottlenecks in the modern prostate cancer histopathology by providing more accurate diagnosis and better treatment decisions, they said. The study, published in the journal The Lancet Oncology, shows […]