MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The WVU Cancer Institute is helping to advance cancer care in developing nations by donating gently used radiation therapy equipment. The Department of Radiation Oncology is donating patient positioning and immobilization equipment worth about $75,000 to Radiating Hope, a Utah-based nonprofit group that provides radiation equipment, training, and education to benefit cancer patients…
How Patients With Cancer Can Best Care For Their Chemo Port – Curetoday.com
© 2022 MJH Life Sciences and CURE – Oncology & Cancer News for Patients & Caregivers. All rights reserved. © 2022 MJH Life Sciences™ and CURE – Oncology & Cancer News for Patients & Caregivers. All rights reserved.Care teams often implant a chemo port into patients with cancer to provide easy access for blood draws…
Entergy grant to help transport and house patients receiving cancer treatment – Entergy Newsroom
News Center > Entergy grant to help transport and house patients receiving cancer treatment06/23/2022Entergy has long worked to make sure the communities it serves are healthy and safe. The company recently provided a $50,000 contribution to the American Cancer Society’s Patrick F. Taylor Hope Lodge Foundation that will go toward helping transport and house patients…
Molecular tumor profiling in pediatric cancer patients significantly impacts clinical care – News-Medical.Net
Molecular tumor profiling in pediatric cancer patients significantly impacts clinical care News-Medical.Netsource
Breast cancer spreads the most at a particular time of day, scientists find – The Hill
America is changing fast! Sign up for our weekly newsletter to stay informed and engaged. by Adam BarnesBreast cancer spreads most efficiently at night as the cells that later spread mainly appear while a person is asleep, a new study suggests. “When the affected person is asleep, the tumor awakens,” the study’s leader Nicola Aceto, a…
Probiotics may give tamoxifen a boost in breast cancer treatment – Medical News Today
Next to skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer among females in the United States.Two-thirds of breast cancer tumors are sensitive to hormones like estrogen and progesterone, indicating that the tumor’s cells have receptors that use the hormones as fuel to grow.Estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer is the most common type of breast…
Lessons from COVID-19 pandemic, impact on breast cancer care – Healio
Healio spoke with Daphna Yael Spiegel, MD, MS, about screening, delays in diagnosis, and other ways the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the breast cancer care continuum.Moreover, Spiegel, assistant professor of radiation oncology at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, highlighted ongoing concerns specifically related to HER-positive disease. Healio: After 2 years and…
Berry Oncology launches HIFI Pan-Cancer Screening, a multi-cancer early screening product for detecting six high-risk cancers at one time – PR Newswire
Searching for your content… In-Language News Contact Us 888-776-0942 from 8 AM – 10 PM ET News provided byJun 23, 2022, 10:37 ETShare this articleBEIJING, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — On June 23, Berry Oncology, a global leading company specialized in genomic testing and early cancer screening, announced the launch of its innovative one-time precision product…
UTSW researchers part of winning global team in Cancer Grand Challenges – UT Southwestern
Newsroom Published on: June 16, 2022 Funding aims to gather international teams to solve cancer’s biggest problemsDALLAS – June 16, 2022 – UT Southwestern researchers Zhijian “James” Chen, Ph.D., and Sihan Wu, Ph.D., are part of a team that has been awarded a Cancer Grand Challenges grant, a unique award that aims to solve some of cancer’s…
Electronic PRO Survey Yields Improved HRQOL at 3 Months in Metastatic Cancer – Cancer Network
© 2022 MJH Life Sciences and Cancer Network. All rights reserved.© 2022 MJH Life Sciences™ and Cancer Network. All rights reserved.Patients with metastatic cancer had improved health-related quality of life, physical function, and symptom control at 3 months when a weekly electronic patient reported outcomes survey was used.The use of a weekly electronic patient reported…
Scientists Discover New Molecule That Kills Hard-to-Treat Cancers – University of Texas at Dallas
The University of Texas at Dallas is closely monitoring the outbreak of COVID-19 (coronavirus).A new molecule synthesized by a University of Texas at Dallas researcher kills a broad spectrum of hard-to-treat cancers, including triple-negative breast cancer, by exploiting a weakness in cells not previously targeted by other drugs.A study describing the research — which was…
Cancer cells depend on environmental lipids for proliferation when electron acceptors are limited – Nature.com
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Relay for Life fundraiser supports efforts of American Cancer Society – centraljersey.com
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP — Teams made up of people of all ages came together to raise $69,859 for the American Cancer Society during a recent Relay For Life event held at Freehold Township High School.For several months before the June 3 event, the individuals met to come up with names for their teams and to start…