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Some Physicians Are Ordering Thyroid Tests for Unsupported Reasons
While most thyroid ultrasound orders are warranted, researchers say guidelines could be clearer to help reduce over diagnosis of thyroid cancer.
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Cancer vs. COVID: When a Pandemic Upended Cancer Care
A Rogel Cancer Center team created a guide to help providers navigate difficult conversations due to the coronavirus.
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Study Suggests New Approach to Improve Radiation Therapy Resistance in Glioblastoma
Cancer treatment research for glioblastoma enters new phase with FDA-approved drug trial that aims to improve the effect of radiation therapy on this aggressive brain cancer.
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Researchers Optimistic After Dose-Determining Trial of Compound Against Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
The multi-institution phase 1b/2a clinical trial found good tolerability and encouraging efficacy data for the pan-BET bromodomain inhibitor in combination with enzalutamide.
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New Clues in Resistance to Mainstay Drug for Patients with Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Multi-institution analysis identifies a new chromosomal abnormality linked to enzalutamide resistance.
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Inhibiting Key Molecular Chaperone Sensitizes Tumors to Radiation Therapy in Animal Models
While heat shock protein 90 inhibitors have shown limited benefit in directly treating cancer, low doses may improve the efficacy of radiotherapy, a new study finds.
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Study Suggests Method to Starve Pancreatic Cancer Cells
Rather than attacking cancer cells directly, new cell-model research probes weaknesses in pancreatic cancer’s interactions with other cells to obtain nutrients needed for tumor growth.
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This MicroRNA Might Help Detect, Treat Ovarian Cancer
New ovarian cancer research shows microRNA biomarker miR-181a could hold the key to earlier detection and treatment of the disease.
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Study: Mixed Progress in Efforts to Reduce Low Value Breast Cancer Surgery
A U-M review found national Choosing Wisely recommendations to reduce overtreatment in early stage breast cancer weren’t consistently followed.
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U-M Researchers Home in on Key Player in Pancreatic Cancer Development
The protein Argonaute 2 was found to be critical to the progression from benign lesions into pancreatic cancer, suggesting a therapeutic opportunity.
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App Calculates Risk of Delaying Cancer Care During Pandemic
The University of Michigan’s OncCOVID app draws on global cancer and coronavirus data to create an individualized mortality risk assessment for receiving immediate versus delayed cancer treatment.
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New Analytic Tool Designed to Help Guide Precision Cancer Research and Treatment
A new precision medicine analytics tool called TransPRECISE developed to help oncologists with cancer treatment and research.
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Program Aims to Help the Muslim Community Quit Smoking During Ramadan
One program is helping people in the Arab-American community quit smoking for good during the month of Ramadan.
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Clinical Trial Offers Clues About Why Some Metastatic Prostate Cancers Don’t Respond to Anti-Androgen Therapy
Transcriptional profiling identifies a gene program active in metastatic prostate cancers that failed to respond to enzalutamide treatment.
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Turning On the ‘Off Switch’ in Cancer Cells
Researchers have made strides toward targeting cancer in a new way. Through a collaboration between institutions and various scientific disciplines, scientists found a new way to attack a previously undruggable tumor suppressor.