Biliary tract disease describes any disease that affects the biliary tract the gall bladder, bile ducts and accompanying structures. Examples include primary sclerosing cholangitis, secondary ...

a risk factor for cancer. Renaming DCIS is an “ethical imperative,” she has argued, to spare patients undue anxiety and to shift the current treatment paradigm from invasive surgery to active ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A novel delivery system using lipopeptide hydrogels (LPHs) has been developed to enhance the effectiveness of peptide-based cancer vaccines. These LPHs act as ...

"The number of patients who achieved this pCR improved significantly as a result of nivolumab, an exciting result that points to a new treatment paradigm in this most common type of breast cancer." ...

The study was published in the top journal Nature Cancer. In the study Talimogene Laherparepvec (TVEC) was used, which has so far only been approved for the treatment of superficial melanoma ...

By harnessing gold nanoparticles coupled with the HN-1 peptide, this innovative system ... in cancer nanotherapy." The Au-HN-1 nanosystem could transform the landscape of TSCC treatment and ...

How cancer ‘poisons’ the immune system Cancer cells can sabotage immune cells that try to attack them by filling them with defective mitochondria, the organelles that cells rely on to make energy.

Jan. 21, 2025 -- The FDA has approved a new treatment for patients with a common form of breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body or cannot be surgically removed. The drug ...

AstraZeneca’s (AZ) Imfinzi (durvalumab) has been approved in the European Union (EU) as first-line treatment of adult patients with unresectable or metastatic biliary tract cancer (BTC ...

Some can grow very slowly, others more quickly. Some NETs might not grow at all for months or years. So you might not need treatment straight away. Your doctor might just keep an eye on the cancer ...

Background: Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB)-based immunotherapy has inspired new hope for advanced biliary tract cancer (BTC) treatment; however, there are no prior studies that primarily focus on ...