Oncology

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What Is Graft-Versus-Host Disease and How Is It Treated? Health

What Is Graft-Versus-Host Disease and How Is It Treated?

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a serious complication of bone marrow and stem cell transplants where donor immune cells attack the recipient's bo...

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How PET Scans Work and Why They Detect Cancer Early Health

How PET Scans Work and Why They Detect Cancer Early

PET scans use radioactive sugar tracers and gamma-ray detection to map metabolic activity inside the body, revealing tumors long before symptoms appea...

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Mirror Molecule Kills Cancer, Spares Healthy Cells Health

Mirror Molecule Kills Cancer, Spares Healthy Cells

Scientists have discovered that D-cysteine, a rare mirror-image amino acid, selectively starves cancer cells by targeting a specific transporter — lea...

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How Cancer Metastasis Works and Why It's So Deadly Health

How Cancer Metastasis Works and Why It's So Deadly

Metastasis — the spread of cancer from its original site to distant organs — accounts for more than 90% of cancer deaths. Here is how the process work...

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What Is Chirality and Why It Matters in Medicine Science

What Is Chirality and Why It Matters in Medicine

Chirality—the mirror-image 'handedness' of molecules—is one of chemistry's most consequential properties. It explains a 1960s drug disaster, drives mo...

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How Severe COVID and Flu Infections Raise Lung Cancer Risk Health

How Severe COVID and Flu Infections Raise Lung Cancer Risk

New research published in Cell reveals that severe respiratory viral infections reprogram immune cells in the lungs, creating a long-lasting pro-tumor...

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Mirror Amino Acid Targets Cancer, Spares Healthy Cells Science

Mirror Amino Acid Targets Cancer, Spares Healthy Cells

Scientists have discovered that D-cysteine, a mirror-image form of the amino acid cysteine, can dramatically slow tumor growth while leaving healthy c...

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Why Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Is Hard to Treat Health

Why Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Is Hard to Treat

Triple-negative breast cancer lacks the three receptors targeted by most breast cancer drugs, making it harder to treat than other subtypes — but new...

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How Antibody-Drug Conjugates Target Cancer Cells Health

How Antibody-Drug Conjugates Target Cancer Cells

Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are a new class of cancer drug that act like precision-guided missiles — delivering toxic chemotherapy directly inside...

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What Is a Nuclear Metabolic Fingerprint? Science

What Is a Nuclear Metabolic Fingerprint?

Scientists have discovered that hundreds of metabolic enzymes reside directly on human DNA inside the cell nucleus, creating unique "nuclear metabolic...

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What Is T Cell Exhaustion and Why It Limits Cancer Immunotherapy Health

What Is T Cell Exhaustion and Why It Limits Cancer Immunotherapy

T cell exhaustion is a state in which the immune system's most powerful cancer-fighting cells lose their killing ability. Understanding this process i...

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How CAR T-Cell Therapy Fights Cancer Health

How CAR T-Cell Therapy Fights Cancer

CAR T-cell therapy reprograms a patient's own immune cells to hunt and destroy cancer. Here's how this revolutionary treatment works, which cancers it...

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