Oncology

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What Is Glioblastoma—and Why Is It So Hard to Treat? Health

What Is Glioblastoma—and Why Is It So Hard to Treat?

Glioblastoma is the most aggressive brain cancer, with a median survival of just 15 months. Here's how it grows, why the blood-brain barrier blocks tr...

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How PET Scans Work—and What They Reveal Health

How PET Scans Work—and What They Reveal

Positron emission tomography uses radioactive tracers and gamma-ray detection to map metabolic activity inside the body, making it a vital tool for di...

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How HPV Self-Testing Works—and Why It Could Save Lives Health

How HPV Self-Testing Works—and Why It Could Save Lives

HPV self-collection lets people screen for cervical cancer at home using a simple swab. Here's how the technology works, who it helps, and why experts...

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What Are Carotenoids and How They Protect Your Body Science

What Are Carotenoids and How They Protect Your Body

Carotenoids are plant pigments that do far more than add color to fruits and vegetables—they shield your eyes from damage, strengthen your immune syst...

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How mRNA Cancer Vaccines Work—and Why They Matter Science

How mRNA Cancer Vaccines Work—and Why They Matter

The same mRNA technology behind COVID-19 shots is now being turned against cancer. Personalized therapeutic vaccines teach a patient's immune system t...

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How Codon Bias Works—DNA's Hidden Second Code Science

How Codon Bias Works—DNA's Hidden Second Code

The genetic code has 64 codons but only 20 amino acids, and scientists long assumed the 'extra' codons were interchangeable. New research reveals cell...

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How Liquid Biopsy Works—and Why It Could Change Cancer Detection Science

How Liquid Biopsy Works—and Why It Could Change Cancer Detection

Liquid biopsy analyzes fragments of tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream, offering a minimally invasive way to screen for dozens of cancers from a...

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Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Deadly—and So Hard to Treat Health

Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Deadly—and So Hard to Treat

Pancreatic cancer kills more than 80% of patients within a year of diagnosis. Here's why it evades detection, resists treatment, and what new research...

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How DNA Nanorobots Work—and Why Medicine Wants Them Science

How DNA Nanorobots Work—and Why Medicine Wants Them

DNA nanorobots are tiny programmable machines built from folded DNA strands that can deliver drugs, detect disease, and operate autonomously inside th...

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New Drug and Blood Test Could Transform Preventive Medicine Health

New Drug and Blood Test Could Transform Preventive Medicine

Baxdrostat shows breakthrough results for resistant hypertension in Phase 3 trials, while the Galleri multi-cancer blood test detects over 50 cancer t...

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Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Catch Early Health

Why Pancreatic Cancer Is So Hard to Catch Early

Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate of any major cancer, largely because it hides deep in the body, produces no early symptoms, and resists...

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How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer From a Blood Draw Health

How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer From a Blood Draw

Liquid biopsies analyze tiny fragments of tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream, offering a minimally invasive way to detect cancer, guide treatmen...

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