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2021 - Cancer Currents Blog

  • A patient in a hospital gown lies on a treatment table beneath a large linear accelerator machine during a radiation therapy session.
    • By Sharon Reynolds

    Many with prostate cancer can safely receive shorter, higher-dose radiation therapy after surgery, a new study has found. The approach, called HYPORT, didn’t harm patients’ quality of life compared with the standard radiation approach, trial finds.

  • A super resolution image of killer T cells, stained in green and red, surrounding a cancer cell, stained in blue.
    • By Justin Benavidez

    The CAR T-cell therapy Tecartus has become the first such treatment approved by FDA to treat adults with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). The approval is for patients whose cancer has not responded to treatment or returned after treatment.

  • A protein-protein "interactome" of protein-protein interactions.
    • By Carmen Phillips

    A research team has identified common interactions between cancer-related proteins in cancer cells. They also created a map of how these protein complexes function in those cells and identified a promising treatment target for head and neck cancer.

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