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Oncology, meaning bulk, mass, or tumor, and the suffix ''-logy'', meaning "study of") is a branch of medicine that deals with tumors (cancer). A medical professional who practices oncology is an ''oncologist''.

Scientists use fruit fly embryos to study immune cell invasion

To fight infections and heal injuries, immune cells need to enter tissue. They also need to invade tumors to fight them from within.

7 Jan 2022

A folic acid-like drug changes a DNA process within brain tumors

A folic acid-like drug, L-methylfolate, when administered alongside the standard therapy for patients with recurrent glioblastoma, changed aDNA process within their brain tumors, according to results from a phase 1 clinical trial.

From Vanderbilt University 6 Jan 2022

PhoreMost and POLARISqb announce a multi-target collaboration to investigate next-generation cancer therapies

PhoreMost Limited and Polaris Quantum Biotech (POLARISqb) today announced a collaboration to study oncology targets currently considered undruggable.

From PhoreMost 6 Jan 2022

Researchers discover a crucial and exploitable vulnerability in diffuse large B cell lymphomas

Aggressive and relatively common lymphomas called diffuse large B cell lymphomas (DLBCLs) have a critical metabolic vulnerability that can be exploited to trick these cancers into starving themselves, according to a study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell's Ithaca campus.

4 Jan 2022

Scientists find how cells remain dormant for years before awakening to create metastatic cancer

Mount Sinai researchers have solved a major mystery in cancer research: How cancer cells remain dormant for years after they leave a tumor and travel to other parts of the body, before awakening to create metastatic cancer.

14 Dec 2021

Research describes dynamic genomic landscape of tumor heterogeneity in hepatocellular carcinoma

Clinician scientists and scientists from the National Cancer Centre Singapore and A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore, in collaboration with Singapore General Hospital, the National University Health System, Duke-NUS Medical School, Nanyang Technological University, and collaborators from China, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, have described a dynamic genomic landscape of tumour heterogeneity in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

13 Dec 2021

Genetic makeup of neuroblastoma shows marked spatial and temporal variability

Tumors are heterogeneous, which means that different parts of the same tumor can be genetically distinct. This phenomenon, known as intratumor heterogeneity, is steadily gaining in significance within the field of cancer research.

13 Dec 2021

New classification method divides breast cancers into 12 distinct biological groups

Researchers at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have taken a major step forward in melding two key methods for studying breast cancer: one by genetic analysis and the second by looking at the architecture of cells, or their pathology.

9 Dec 2021

Single-cell spatial analysis may provide information about neoadjuvant therapy for triple-negative breast cancer

A next-generation technology that allows the study of protein expression at the single-cell level and the location of the cells within the tumor microenvironment (TME) was feasible and provided information on the benefit of adding the immune checkpoint inhibitor atezolizumab (Tecentriq) to chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment for patients with early high-risk and locally advanced triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), according to results presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held December 7-10, 2021.

8 Dec 2021

Lunaphore to host inaugural Spatial Biology Week™ virtual meeting

Lunaphore today announced the events and activities planned around the inaugural Lunaphore Spatial Biology Week™, taking place virtually December 6-10, 2021.

From Lunaphore 7 Dec 2021

Integration of digital and molecular data could enable individualized prevention of disease

Analyzing molecular characteristics and their variation during lifestyle changes, by combining digital tools, classical laboratory tests and new biomolecular measurements, could enable individualised prevention of disease.

3 Dec 2021

Next-generation sequencing for minimal residual disease proven more sensitive than flow cytometry

In pediatric and young adult patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treated with tisagenlecleucel (Kymriah), DNA sequencing-based detection of residual disease between three and 12 months accurately identified all patients who would eventually relapse, while other methods were less predictive.

2 Dec 2021

Oncology News and Research

Scientists use fruit fly embryos to study immune cell invasion

A folic acid-like drug changes a DNA process within brain tumors

PhoreMost and POLARISqb announce a multi-target collaboration to investigate next-generation cancer therapies

Researchers discover a crucial and exploitable vulnerability in diffuse large B cell lymphomas

Scientists find how cells remain dormant for years before awakening to create metastatic cancer

Research describes dynamic genomic landscape of tumor heterogeneity in hepatocellular carcinoma

Genetic makeup of neuroblastoma shows marked spatial and temporal variability

New classification method divides breast cancers into 12 distinct biological groups

Single-cell spatial analysis may provide information about neoadjuvant therapy for triple-negative breast cancer

Lunaphore to host inaugural Spatial Biology Week™ virtual meeting

Integration of digital and molecular data could enable individualized prevention of disease

Next-generation sequencing for minimal residual disease proven more sensitive than flow cytometry

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Treatment with common allergy medication linked to improved immunotherapy response

Cancer data available for global scientists through Microsoft’s Azure

Cerba Research Expands U.S. Immuno-Oncology Center of Excellence to Strengthen Its Precision Medicine Offerings

Deep learning can generate real insights into how proteins interact

bit.bio appoints Kathryn Corzo as Chief Operating Officer

Scientists use AI and evolutionary analysis to produce 3D models of eukaryotic protein interactions

New model for early prediction of cancer patients' response to immunotherapy

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