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  • A photo of a red soda can, taken from directly above, sitting on a dark red tiled floor.
    Fructose Fuels Cancer Growth Indirectly, Lab Study Finds
    • By Nadia Jaber

    Researchers have found that feeding fructose, a main component of high-fructose corn syrup, to lab animals with cancer made their tumors grow faster. But the tumors couldn’t directly consume the sugar—it had to take a detour through the liver first.

  • A colorful illustration of Y-shaped antibodies, depicted in a sparkling blue color, among a cancer cell, depicted in a bright-red orange
    FDA Approvals Expand Initial Treatment Options for Multiple Myeloma
    • By Daryl McGrath

    FDA’s approvals of Darzalex Faspro and Sarclisa, each used in combination with standard three-drug treatment regimens, should change the initial treatment of newly diagnosed multiple myeloma, including for patients who can’t get a stem cell transplant.

  • A before and after imaging scans showing a near complete response of a tumor in the spinal cord.
    Experimental CAR T-Cell Therapy Shrinks Tumors in Children with Deadly Brain Cancer
    • By Linda Wang

    In a small clinical trial, an experimental CAR T-cell therapy that targets the protein GD2 on cancer cells shrank tumors—for 2 years or more in several cases—in children and young adults with diffuse midline glioma, an aggressive brain and spinal cord cancer.

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