Treatment - Cancer Currents Blog
Cancer treatment related news, with context from leading experts. Includes articles on new therapies, treatment side effects, and important trends in treatment-related research.
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A new study shows that specific DNA changes in a tumor may help determine which patients are most likely to respond to treatment with PD-1 inhibitors
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In a large clinical trial, giving a hormone-suppressing drug helped some younger women with breast cancer get pregnant after completing cancer treatment.
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At the recent annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, several NCI researchers and NCI-funded investigators presented important new findings on HIV-related cancers.
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Researchers have identified genetic variations in children with brain cancer that increased their risk of rapid hearing loss after treatment.
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Several new resources that provide more details about the changing treatment landscape for advanced melanoma have recently been added to Cancer.gov.
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Researchers have identified a “genetic signature” in the tumors of patients with advanced melanoma who responded to a form of immunotherapy called checkpoint blockade. The results could be the basis for a test that identifies likely responders to this treatment as well as for developing new treatments.
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Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in Boston have reported on a method for studying treatment resistance that may identify combinations of targeted therapies that can help to combat resistance in some patients.