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Jerry Jones sometimes says too much about his Dallas Cowboys. His cancer battle for more than a decade remained a secret though. Jones told the Dallas Morning News that he beat stage 4 melanoma. The Cowboys owner’s battle lasted more than a decade, he said, and included four surgeries. Advertisement “I now have no tumors,” Jones, who is 82 years …

Researchers with the Virginia Cancer Screening Research Network are looking for participants for a study that’s putting a new way of screening for cancer to the test. Through the Vanguard Study, they will determine if multi-cancer detection tests can effectively screen for 10 different types of cancer, including breast, prostate and lung. The study is open to people across Virginia …

TAR-200 is a miniature, pretzel-shaped drug-device duo containing a chemotherapy drug, gemcitabine, which is inserted into the bladder through a catheter and releases the drug for three weeks per treatment cycle. How the drug delivery system works   TAR-200 is a miniature, pretzel-shaped drug-device duo containing a chemotherapy drug, gemcitabine, which is inserted into the bladder through …

We’ve heard about upskilling and re-skilling due to AI — but how about de-skilling? A new study published this week found that doctors who frequently use AI to detect cancer in one medical procedure got significantly worse at doing so. The researchers set out to discover whether continuous exposure to AI impacted doctors’ behavior when conducting colonoscopy, so they decided …

Weekend lie-ins, late nights and drinking could be making a dangerous sleep disorder worse, scientists have discovered. Obstructive sleep apnoea is a condition that causes repeated pauses in breathing during sleep and extreme snoring—affecting between eight and ten million people in the UK, and up to 30 million Americans. However researchers have coined the term ‘social apnoea’ to describe a …

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study  Bloomberg.com As AI spreads through health care, is the technology degrading providers’ skills?  statnews.com Relying on AI in Colonoscopies May Erode Clinicians’ Skills  MedPage Today How a bowel cancer examination revealed AI’s negative impact on doctors  The Independent Routine AI assistance hits skills of health experts performing colonoscopies  Financial Times Source link

Cancerous vocal fold lesions could exert a subtle influence over the sound of a person’s voice, which could help catch laryngeal cancer earlier than current methods. While the distinction is impossible to detect with the human ear, scientists have found that machine learning algorithms can tell them apart. Across the world, around 1.1 million cases of laryngeal or ‘voice box’ …

An experimental “off-the-shelf” vaccine for recurring pancreatic and colorectal cancer is showing great promise so far. Early results show that the vaccine appears to be safe and is potentially prolonging people’s lives. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and elsewhere are developing the vaccine, called ELI-002. In Phase I …

Regular drinking could dramatically increase your risk of developing one of the world’s deadliest cancers, researchers have warned—and they believe they may have uncovered why. A new study by scientists in Miami, US, found that high alcohol consumption damages the cells in the pancreas responsible for producing digestive enzymes.  This damage triggers inflammation, harming the organ—which plays a vital role …

NEED TO KNOW Lara Muller, a “fit and healthy” 22-year-old woman in England, was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, in June Before her diagnosis, medical professionals blamed Muller’s tiredness on being anemic, and her back pain on sitting down all day at her new office job “I felt like I was going crazy. I knew there …