Global Cancer News

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first targeted therapy for bile duct cancer. Pemazyre (pemigatinib) is for adults with advanced bile duct cancer whose cancer has grown after at least one previous chemotherapy treatment and whose tumors have a mutation in the FGFR2 gene. Full information at: https://www.cancer.org/latest-news/fda-approves-pemazyre-pemigatinib-for-bile-duct-cancer.html...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new type of therapy for triple-negative breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body and hasn’t responded to other treatments. Triple-negative breast cancer is called that because the cancer cells don’t have estrogen or progesterone receptors and also…...

Cancer patients are among those at high-risk of serious illness from an infection because their immune systems are often weakened by cancer and its treatments. Although most people who were treated for cancer in the past (especially if it was years ago) are likely to have normal immune function, each…...

Researchers have discovered that a fasting-mimicking diet could be more effective at treating some types of cancer when combined with vitamin C. In studies on mice, researchers found that the combination delayed tumor progression in multiple mouse models of colorectal cancer; in some mice, it caused disease regression. For full…...

Dendritic cells are part of the immune system’s first line of defense against cancer and infections and is often used in immunotherapy to treat lung cancer. The question in study here is why immunotherapy tends to be more effective in treating lung cancer than pancreatic cancer and the answer may,…...

Traditionally, the most commonly used method of prostate cancer imaging is the CT scan or bone scan. The new use of PSMA PET-CT proved to be substantially more likely to detect metastatic tumors in men with prostate cancer than the standard imaging approach. The FDA hasn’t approached any PSMA-targeted imaging…...

A new study conducted by Rikki Cannioto, Ph.D., Ed.D., of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, NY adds to the existing evidence linking physical activity with longer survival in women diagnosed with high-risk breast cancer. Women with breast cancer who met the minimum physical activity guidelines both before diagnosis…...

Dr. Alan Parker’s team at Cardiff University is studying how we can pit one viral threat against another and use viruses to destroy cancer cells. The idea of immunotherapy is not completely new, but the idea of utilizing the COVID-19 virus to hung and destroy cancer cells and novel. See…...

Cancer drug olaparib, originally licensed to treat some breast and ovarian cancers have been found to be effective in treating some men with advanced prostate cancer. The drug is designed to take advantage of a weakness in some prostate cancers’ability to prepare damaged DNA. Read full details at: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1911440...

This week the News digest reports on a test that identifies prostate cancer ‘in under 15 minutes’, cancer drug database adapted fro COVID-19, study that suggests more people with lymphoma could benefit form CAR T cell therapy, and that cancer type is specific to ancestry. Read original article at: https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2020/05/16/news-digest-15-minute-prostate-test-covid-19-ai-database-car-t-cell-therapy-and-cancer-ancestry-links/...