Retrospective studies We completed a non-interventional, retrospective review of patient data using the MDACC electronic health record system, which contains a record of the patients who are treated at the primary campus of MDACC, a large quaternary cancer hospital in Houston, Texas. The chart review for this study involved three groups of patients: (1) patients with tumour biopsies confirming stage …
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Lynette HorsburghNorth West Cancer Research UK handout Alex Davies is taking part in the study that could help people get more timely diagnoses A father with an incurable brain tumour has donated his tears to a pioneering study that could revolutionise how brain cancers are detected because he wants to “make a difference”. Alex Davies was initially treated for epilepsy but …
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The drugmaker Pfizer faces a US lawsuit brought on behalf of women who developed brain tumours, which they say are linked to their use of the company’s contraceptive injection Depo-Provera. The class action lawsuit alleges that the US pharmaceutical company failed to warn women and doctors about an increased risk of developing an intracranial meningioma if Depo-Provera, a quarterly injection, …
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DeNardo, D. G. & Ruffell, B. Macrophages as regulators of tumour immunity and immunotherapy. Nat. Rev. Immunol. 19, 369–382 (2019). Article PubMed PubMed Central CAS Google Scholar Swann, J. W., Olson, O. C. & Passegue, E. Made to order: emergency myelopoiesis and demand-adapted innate immune cell production. Nat. Rev. Immunol. 24, 596–613 (2024). Article PubMed CAS Google Scholar Goswami, S., …
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Depriving brain tumours of an amino acid could enhance chemotherapy Nature Source link
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A highly lethal type of brain tumour often steals key nutrients to aid its aggressive growth — a habit that can be exploited to slow the cancer’s spread, scientists have found1. Experiments show that many brain tumours called glioblastomas grab serine, a crucial amino acid, from their environment rather than synthesizing it themselves: a metabolic Achilles’ heel. The scientists fed …
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