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Democratizing Genetic Data for Cancer Research
An open access, online repository accelerates advancements in cancer prevention and prediction.
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New Map of the Immune Landscape in Pancreatic Cancer Could Guide Future Personalized Immunotherapy Treatments
The analysis highlights the diversity of immune response in pancreatic cancer, and points toward the need for treatments tailored to individual patients.
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Toward a New Staging System for Prostate Cancer, and Why it Matters
The U-M-led development and validation of a staging system for non-metastatic prostate cancer could help doctors and patients assess treatment options, as well as improve clinical trials. 
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Tumor DNA in Spinal Fluid Could Help Doctors Better Monitor Childhood Brain Cancer
Researchers have demonstrated that a new liquid biopsy approach overcomes traditional barriers to quickly and efficiently diagnose and monitor high-grade gliomas.
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Axitinib Improves Survival for Patients with Incurable Head and Neck Cancer
This phase 2 trial also identified a subset of patients with specific mutations who may see the most benefit from the drug.
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Scientists Train Computers to Recognize Which Early Stage Breast Cancers Will Spread
The new approach could help doctors to separate aggressive stage 0 breast cancer from non-aggressive forms, sparing some women unnecessary mastectomies.
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Hail Fellows, Well Met!
Though they often receive little fanfare, postdocs are critical to the success of the Rogel Cancer Center’s research programs.
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Making Strides Against Childhood Brain Cancers
A roundup of several recent Michigan Medicine discoveries that are shedding new light on pediatric brain cancers and helping to improve treatment options.
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‘The Immense Burden of Cancer is Not Shouldered Equally’
The disproportionate effect COVID-19 has had on Black Americans may worsen existing racial and ethnic disparities in cancer care, and make health equity harder to achieve.
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Raising Awareness in September and Beyond
Cancer awareness months offer the community a chance to improve treatments, prevention.
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New Connections Reveal How Cancer Evades the Immune System
A new study shows tumor cells eat up a key amino acid, depriving immune cells of it, which prevents them from fighting off cancer.
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Scientists Develop First Drug-Like Compounds to Inhibit Elusive Cancer-Linked Enzymes
Structural biology techniques helped researchers target the nuclear receptor-binding SET domain family, whose malfunction is associated with several types of cancer.
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Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Sheds New Light on Cancer Cells’ Varied Response to Chemotherapy
Single-cell RNA sequencing study offers new insights that could help researchers make chemotherapy more effective in the future.
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Study Suggests New Potential Approach Against Fatal Childhood Brain Cancer
In mouse models of DIPG, simultaneously attacking two metabolic pathways led to significant improvements in survival.
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Prostate Cancer Treatment Might Help Some Glioblastoma Patients
Anti-androgen therapy showed positive results in cell lines and animal models.