5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (341+ words) Radiotherapy may be able to do far more than simply destroy tumor cells. A review explores how combining radiotherapy with immunotherapy could improve outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer. Recent advances now allow us to view radiotherapy from an entirely…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (267+ words) © Axel Kock – stock.adobe.com The results are published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe. Breast cancer tumours that express estrogen receptors are known as estrogen receptor-positive (ER-positive) or hormone-sensitive breast cancer and, on average, have a better prognosis than…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (487+ words) © Anna Shvets – pexels.com This is according to 12-month results from the international STAR-TREC trial, published in The Lancet Oncology. The findings have already prompted an update to Dutch clinical guidelines and are expected to shift treatment standards more broadly....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (347+ words) Cancer spreading beyond the primary tumor – a process known as metastasis – is responsible for at least two-thirds of cancer deaths. Drugs targeting the metastatic progression have largely failed, in part due to the lack of predictive models that would help…...