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An investigation finds 20 papers by Santosh Katiyar, who studied alternative treatments for cancer, include image manipulation.

Early exposure to common microbes could stop leukemia from manifesting in children.

Women with metastatic cancer who were treated with a checkpoint inhibitor had a smaller benefit than did men.

3-D balls of cells can be used to screen for potential cancer drugs.

Sequencing of a single gene can spot patients with a dangerous form of mycosis fungoides better than other prognostic tests.  

Viewing oncogenic mutations in 3-D showed that they cluster together on folded proteins.

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The prominent researcher has been put on administrative leave pending an investigation into unspecified allegations.

Experiments in mice show that mitochondria, both within the tumor and beyond, can make the difference between promoting or inhibiting cancer spread.

Renal cell carcinoma tumors have three different evolutionary fates, each associated with specific clinical outcomes.

Pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy nearly doubles survival rates and shrinks tumors in some individuals.

Genetic analyses uncover cellular hallmarks of bladder cancer tumors that don’t respond, but interfering with one of those characteristics in a mouse model causes tumors to shrink.  

Certain non-chromosomal defects are strongly associated with specific childhood cancers.

Treating mice with anti-inflammatory drugs following surgery reduced the size of tumors.

Miniature versions of bladder cancers could help physicians identify personalized treatment options for patients.

A new study reveals similarities between the transmissible cancers that infect the endangered marsupials, and hints at ways to treat them.

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers find more than 850 rare, heritable genetic alterations that can predispose humans to cancer.

Ching-Shih Chen’s research involved anticancer therapeutics that were being tested in clinical trials.

William Halsted’s approach to mastectomy took the medical world by storm at the turn of the last century.

After I was diagnosed with brain cancer and started to lose my mental health, the importance of my job came into clear focus.