Source: University of Cambridge From: news-medical.net Scientists have created the most detailed map to date, comprised of over 3 million cells, showing how breast tissue changes as women age – including dramatic changes during menopause. The map reveals how, as women age, the number of cells in their breast tissue decreases, and these in turn proliferate less, and the structure …
Four-stranded DNA structures found to play role in breast cancer
Source: University of Cambridge From: eurekalert.org Four stranded DNA structures – known as G-quadruplexes – have been shown to play a role in certain types of breast cancer for the first time, providing a potential new target for personalised medicine, say scientists at the University of Cambridge. In 1953, Cambridge researchers Francis Crick and James Watson co-authored a study published …
Weight loss condition provides clues to why cancer immunotherapy may fail in many patients
Source: University of Cambridge From: news-medical.net A weight loss condition that affects patients with cancer has provided clues as to why cancer immunotherapy – a new approach to treating cancer by boosting a patient’s immune system — may fail in a substantial number of patients. Cancer immunotherapies involve activating a patient’s immune cells to recognise and destroy cancer cells. They …
Research findings pave way to better tailored treatment for oesophageal cancer
Source: Cancer Research UK From: news-medical.net Scientists have discovered that oesophageal cancer can be classified into three different subtypes, paving the way for testing targeted treatments tailored to patients’ disease for the first time. This discovery, published in Nature Genetics today (Monday), could help find drugs that target specific weaknesses in each subtype of the disease, which could make treatment …