A new nasal delivery method for amifostine could protect healthy tissue during pancreatic cancer radiation therapy, ...

One of the most common treatments for cancer is radiation therapy, which includes high-energy rays that target and destroy cancer cells. Radiation therapy can also be used to shrink tumours.

Preclinical studies on animals have shown that microbeam radiation therapy can significantly slow cancer growth by limiting the tumor's ability to repair damage quickly. Healthy, nearby tissues ...

Patients with prior malignancy showed improved cancer-specific survival in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), but prior skin tumors or malignancies diagnosed over five years earlier worsened ...

Research has shown that a potential new targeted therapy for childhood brain cancer is effective in infiltrating and killing tumor cells in preclinical models tested in mice. The novel drug CT-179 was ...

Trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) demonstrates sustained improvement in invasive disease-free survival and reduced the risk for death in human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive breast ...

For example, research has previously indicated that being able to increase the radiation dose in lung cancer patients with tumours that have metastasised to the brain could improve survival.

A new community-based pickleball program called Project Rally is helping cancer survivors improve their physical and social well-being, according to a recent pilot study. The program has shown strong ...

A qualitative study evaluated interpretations of “clinically meaningful” among patients with metastatic breast cancer ... particularly those unrelated to survival. A qualitative study yielded ...

“We designed this study to answer whether adding chemoradiotherapy to chemotherapy improves recurrence-free survival in ... risk in gallbladder cancer, and radiation may play a role in selected ...