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Stanford Medicine News: Cancer
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Synthetic immunotherapy seeks out and destroys tumors in mice with aggressive cancers, study finds
Stanford researchers have developed a synthetic, tumor-targeting molecule that promotes immune activation and tumor regression in laboratory mice after it’s injected into their bloodstreams.
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Researcher awarded $12 million for a stem cell trial to improve outcomes of young blood cancer patients
Stanford researcher Maria Grazia Roncarolo has been awarded $12 million by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine for a trial aimed at improving the outcomes of stem cell transplants in children and young adults with blood cancers.
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Tool can reveal cancer subtypes by cell communities they’re found in
EcoTyper is an algorithm that can sort out cell “ecotypes” — distinct multicellular communities — that exist in many different kinds of cancer.
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Women with genetic mutations fare no worse with breast or ovarian cancer, study finds
Newly diagnosed breast or ovarian cancer patients who carry common cancer-associated mutations have similar or better short-term survival rates than those with no mutations, researchers report.
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