By: Deborah Farr, M.D., Associate Professor of Surgery, UT Southwestern Medical Center From: newswise.com When I was a child, my grandma was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had a radical mastectomy at 55, which back then meant removing all her muscle, skin, and breast tissue – a disfiguring surgery that resulted in lingering pain, swelling, and complete loss of sensation …
Triple negative breast cancer meets its match
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center From: eurekalert.org One member of a larger family of oxygen sensing enzymes could offer a viable target for triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), UTSW researchers report in a new study. The findings, published online this week in Cancer Discovery, might offer hope to this subset of patients who have few effective treatment options and often …
Two-drug combo halts the growth of cancer cells
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center From: sciencedaily.com UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center researchers have discovered a two-drug combo that halts the growth of cancer cells that carry HER2 mutations. The findings, published today in the journal Cancer Cell, were prompted by the observation that, after an initial response, patients with cancers harboring HER2 mutations eventually develop resistance to a promising …
New GammaPod advances breast cancer care
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center From: newswise.com UT Southwestern Medical Center now offers more precise radiation treatments for breast cancer with a new, cutting-edge device that is only the second of its kind in the world. Watch video: Advancing breast cancer care The GammaPod delivers higher doses of radiation to a narrowly targeted area, meaning breast cancer patients will have fewer …
Illuminating cancer: Researchers invent a pH threshold sensor to improve cancer surgery
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center From: eurekalert.org UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have invented a transistor-like threshold sensor that can illuminate cancer tissue, helping surgeons more accurately distinguish cancerous from normal tissue. In this latest study, researchers were able to demonstrate the ability of the nanosensor to illuminate tumor tissue in multiple mouse models. The study is published in Nature …
New therapeutic targets for small cell lung cancer identified – Science Daily
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center From: sciencedaily.com UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a protein termed ASCL1 that is essential to the development of small cell lung cancer and that, when deleted in the lungs of mice, prevents the cancer from forming. The new findings identify ASCL1 as an important therapeutic target for small cell lung cancer, for which …
98 percent cure rate for prostate cancer using stereotactic body radiation therapy, research shows
Source: UT Southwestern Medical Center From: sciencedaily.com A five-year study shows that Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) to treat prostate cancer offers a higher cure rate than more traditional approaches, according to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center. The study — the first trial to publish five-year results from SBRT treatment for prostate cancer …