More articles about: Cancer (Oncology)

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A quest to combat critical drug shortages

To combat critical drug shortages, a Michigan Medicine physician advocates for better solutions to the ongoing supply chain issues regarding medications in the United States.
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Saturated fatty acids promote immune escape of oral cancers

A team of Michigan Medicine researchers have identified a mechanism in mice for how obesity affects some oral cancers’ ability to escape from the immune system.
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A ‘transformational time’ for thyroid cancer

For thyroid cancer, experts examine the current state of overdiagnosis, new therapies, health equity concerns and more.
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You’ve got some nerve

Researchers at Michigan Medicine have identified a new metric to articulate the relationship between nerve density and oral cancer. The study investigated normalized nerve density to translate previous mechanistic studies into a context that could be used in the clinic.
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Sex, age, mental health and more can affect perceived barriers to genetic testing for cancer

A variety of factors affect the barriers that patients with cancer foresee to undergoing genetic testing, researchers found, but the issues that motivate patients to actually follow through with genetic testing remain unclear.
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When genetic testing can help the whole family

Genetic testing for hereditary conditions such as breast cancer can have implications for the whole family. Learn how genetic testing helped Cathleen Argyle and her family to uncover a rare mutation and how the Rogel Cancer Center provided advice and guidance throughout the process.
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Artificial intelligence predicts genetics of cancerous brain tumors in under 90 seconds

A new study finds AI-based diagnostic screening system, DeepGlioma, detects genetic mutations in brain tumors in under 90 seconds. Streamlining glioma diagnosis and treatment.
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The radiologists behind the curtain

Radiologists play a large role in many tumor diagnoses, but rarely get the recognition for it.
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An unexpected “junk” discovery

Russell Ryan, MD, and his team’s discovery appears to address longstanding mysteries about mutations found in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia
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Giving childhood cancer survivors the chance to have children of their own

What do you do when you know a disease is reversible, even curable, and yet each year millions of people still suffer from it? For Amy Rothberg, M.D., you find a whole new way to help people not only lose weight, but in some cases even reverse a diabetes diagnosis.