Pre-Op Axitinib Helps for Partial Nephrectomy of Complex Renal Tumors

1 day ago | MedPageToday

SAN DIEGO - Use of neoadjuvant axitinib resulted in significant reductions in tumor size and complexity, enabling partial nephrectomy in a cohort of patients with highly...
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Cardiovascular Risk Marker Improved With Common Rheumatoid Arthritis Drugs

1 day ago | MedPageToday

Rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with medications targeting the tumor necrosis factor pathway or with standard disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs showed substantial...
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New Tool to Help Brain Surgeons, One Step Closer to Operating Room

1 day ago | BWH

A new tool that could allow for faster, more comprehensive testing of brain tissue during surgery successfully identified the cancer type, grade and tumor margins in five brain...
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Stem cell crosstalk with the microenvironment creates a loop of tumor-promoting factors

2 days ago | News Medical

What drives tumor growth? Is it a few rogue cells imposing their will upon healthy tissue, or diseased tissue bringing out the worst in otherwise peaceable cells? Or is it a...
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Lowering temperature of tumor cells to 68F can halt hard-to-treat brain cancers from growing

2 days ago | Daily Mail | 2 articles

Lowering the temperature on brain tumor cells has been shown to stall their growth in rat subjects in a new study. Hypothermia, the method used, can be an effective way to halt...
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Scientists discover how an enzyme involved in DNA repair becomes vital to tumor survival

3 days ago | News Medical

Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, in collaboration with Artios, have identified how an enzyme involved in DNA repair , becomes vital to the survival of certain...
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Roche withdraws atezolizumab indication for urothelial carcinoma

3 days ago | Healio

Roche voluntarily withdrew atezolizumab's indication in the United States for the treatment of adults with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma. The indication...
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AI tool can reliably classify difficult-to-diagnose nasal cavity tumors

4 days ago | News Medical

Although tumors in the nasal cavity and the paranasal sinus are confined to a small space, they encompass a very broad spectrum with many tumor types.
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Endoscopic aqueductal membrane fenestration was effective for intractable hydrocephalus after removal of a nongerminomatous germ cell tumor exhibiting growing teratoma syndrome: a case report

4 days ago | BMC

Primary central nervous system germ cell tumors are rare neoplasms predominantly observed in the pediatric and young adult populations. A mixed GCT including immature teratoma...
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Lung Cancer Screening Can Catch Tumors When They're Curable, New Research Finds

4 days ago | Time

For the past six years, Elyssa Barbaro has gotten screened for lung cancer. The 71-year-old New Yorker smoked for about 50 years, but she doubts she would have gotten an annual...
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NY state health commissioner resigning to return to Harvard

New York's state health commissioner will resign Jan. 1 after 13 months in the job to return to Harvard University's T Read more ...

Community-Based Asymptomatic COVID Testing; Particulate Matter in Lungs

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president... Read more ...

Opera and other art should confront controversial issues

In response to the call to action to fix the “rape problem” in opera by denuding the productions of all that is likely to cause harm, let's cleanse art of all beastliness. Read more ...

Charlotte Rampling: ‘You have to do rather nasty things to get on, don't you?'

The film legend discusses the MeToo movement, why she's against plastic surgery and the ménage à trois that scandalised 1970s Britain. Read more ...

Don't believe the myth it's more difficult to satisfy women

Orgasms are a lot like oxygen - no big deal unless you're not getting any. And yet the female orgasm remains more of a mystery than the continued career success of Donald Trump. Read more ...

Savory Steel Cut Oatmeal

Savory Steel Cut Oats for breakfast is loaded with protein and provides a good dose of fiber, which will keep you feeling satisfied longer. Savory Steel Cut Oats If you never... Read more ...

‘We changed everything': How 56 schools transformed their teaching and...

Fours years ago, stagnating academic outcomes prompted a classroom revolution in this cluster of NSW schools. Read more ...

Alan Carr: ‘The whole gay scene scares me'

The comedian opens up about being an old soul, coming out in the '80s, and his insecurities around dating. Read more ...

Are we really prepared to lose this natural wonder?

Like so many others, I thought we had more time to save the Great Barrier Reef. I was wrong. Read more ...

The fashion photographer whose style is still ‘a work in progress'

“Earlier this year I realised I didn't have a great relationship with clothes. How clothes fit my body was linked to my sense of self-worth.” Read more ...