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Nobel Prize for medicine awarded for discovery of microRNAs, which play key role in cancer development
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Nobel Prize for medicine awarded for discovery of microRNAs, which play key role in cancer development

  • Janet Fricker
  • 10 October 2024

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, announced on Monday 7 October, has been awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for discovering microRNAs and their role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. The work by Ambros, now at the…

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ESMO launches initiative to tackle burnout in oncology healthcare professionals
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ESMO launches initiative to tackle burnout in oncology healthcare professionals

  • Janet Fricker
  • 27 September 2024

The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is calling on the oncology community to commit to improving the wellbeing of the cancer workforce. In a paper published in ESMO Open, 10 September, ESMO outlines 11 actions to manage psychosocial risks,…

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Antibody-drug conjugate proves effective against active brain metastases
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Antibody-drug conjugate proves effective against active brain metastases

  • Janet Fricker
  • 26 September 2024

The antibody drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) showed substantial intracranial activity in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer whose disease had metastasised to the brain. The DESTINY-Breast12 study, presented at the Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), held…

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Early menopause raises own risk of breast cancer and family members’ risk of breast, colon and prostate cancers
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Early menopause raises own risk of breast cancer and family members’ risk of breast, colon and prostate cancers

  • Janet Fricker
  • 12 September 2024

Women who experience primary ovarian insufficiency (menopause before the age of 40) are more than twice as likely to experience breast cancer as other women of similar ages. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 12…

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Raised suicide risk highlights need to support patient’s spouse
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Raised suicide risk highlights need to support patient’s spouse

  • Janet Fricker
  • 12 September 2024

The spouses of patients diagnosed with cancer were 28% more likely to attempt suicide and 47% more likely to succeed at their attempt than spouses of people not diagnosed. The Danish cohort study, published in Jama Oncology, August 15, found…

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Aspirin prevents colorectal cancer best in those with least healthy lifestyles
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Aspirin prevents colorectal cancer best in those with least healthy lifestyles

  • Janet Fricker
  • 29 August 2024

Regular aspirin may help lower risk of colorectal cancer most effectively in people who have greater lifestyle-related risk factors for the disease. The study, published in JAMA Oncology on 1 August, found that, to prevent one case of colorectal cancer…

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Endometriosis: impact on ovarian cancer varies by subtype
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Endometriosis: impact on ovarian cancer varies by subtype

  • Janet Fricker
  • 28 August 2024

Women with endometriosis have a fourfold higher risk of any type of ovarian cancer and those with severe endometriosis a 10 fold higher risk compared to women who do not have the condition. The study, which involved a cohort of…

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Disadvantaged neighbourhoods may contribute to racial disparities in risk of aggressive prostate cancer
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Disadvantaged neighbourhoods may contribute to racial disparities in risk of aggressive prostate cancer

  • Janet Fricker
  • 1 August 2024

Men with prostate cancer living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods show significantly higher activity of stress-related genes than those living in other neighbourhoods. The observational study, published in JAMA Network Open, 12 July, found that neighbourhood disadvantage was positively associated with the…

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Exercise boosts anti-tumour immune cells in people with breast cancer
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Exercise boosts anti-tumour immune cells in people with breast cancer

  • Janet Fricker
  • 29 July 2024

Just 30 minutes of exercise increases the proportion of tumour-killing immune cells in the blood of people with breast cancer. The Finnish study, published in Frontiers in Immunology, 24 June, found that the proportion of CD8+ T cells and natural…

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Liver biopsies can predict when and where pancreatic cancer will metastasise and may guide treatment of early-stage disease
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Liver biopsies can predict when and where pancreatic cancer will metastasise and may guide treatment of early-stage disease

  • Janet Fricker
  • 9 July 2024

Liver biopsies undertaken at the time of surgery for pancreatic cancer can be used to identify cellular and molecular markers that predict whether early pancreatic cancer will later metastasise to the liver. The study, published in Nature Medicine, June 28,…

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