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Mechanism for How Pancreatic Cancer Evades Immunotherapy Elucidated
Discovery could lead to new or improved therapeutic options. WASHINGTON (January 28, 2021) — Pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal of all cancers, is capable of evading attacks by immune cells by changing its microenvironment so that the immune cells suppress, rather than support, an attack on the tumor, according to a study led […]
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Male Breast Cancer Patients Face High Prevalence of Heart Disease Risk Factors
Findings indicate greater need for involvement of cardiologists, cardio-oncologists in this rarer patient population WASHINGTON (January 25, 2021) — Male breast cancer patients were found to have a high prevalence of cardiovascular conditions, in a small study of this rare patient population presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Advancing the Cardiovascular Care of the […]
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Disrupting the Cellular Process That Promotes Pancreatic Cancer’s Deadly Growth
WASHINGTON (December 8, 2020) — Researchers say they’ve identified a way to disrupt a process that promotes the growth of pancreatic cancers — one of the most difficult and deadly cancers to treat. The team, led by scientists at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and including investigators from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, STCube and Fluidigm, […]
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Smoking, Tobacco Use Among Teens Continues to Drop Even as Use of E-cigs Grows
WASHINGTON (December 2, 2020) — Despite the increase in use of e-cigarettes among adolescents, cigarette and smokeless tobacco prevalence declined more rapidly between 2012 and 2019 than in previous periods, according to a new study. The analysis by Georgetown University and the University of Michigan shows that past 30-day and daily use of both cigarettes […]
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Space Travel Can Adversely Impact Energy Production in a Cell
WASHINGTON (November 25, 2020) — Studies of both mice and humans who have traveled into space reveal that critical parts of a cell’s energy production machinery, the mitochondria, can be made dysfunctional due to changes in gravity, radiation exposure and other factors, according to investigators at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. These findings are part […]
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Boosting Stem Cell Activity Can Enhance Immunotherapy Benefits
WASHINGTON (November 23, 2020) — Immune-system T cells have been reprogrammed into regenerative stem cell-like memory (TSCM) cells that are long-lived, highly active “super immune cells” with strong antitumor activity, according to new research from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The reprogramming involves a novel approach the researchers developed that inhibits the activity of proteins […]
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Immunotherapy Combo Halts Rare, Stage 4 Sarcoma in Teen
NUTLEY, NJ (October 14, 2020) — A patient with end-stage and rapidly progressing soft-tissue cancer whose tumor did not respond to standard treatment had a “rapid and complete response” to a novel combination of immunotherapy, according to new research published by a team of scientists from John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center […]
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Menthol Cigarette Ban in the U.S. May Lower Number of Smokers
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Georgetown Lombardi Launches COVID-19 Antibody Study in People with Cancer
WASHINGTON (April 29, 2020) — Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, in collaboration with MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, has begun a study to test for specific virus antibodies in people with cancer, who are vulnerable to COVID-19. The FDA, has approved (under an emergency use authorization) only a few tests produced commercially to detect antibodies against […]
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Adding Smoking Cessation to Lung Cancer Screening Can Reduce Mortality by 14%
WASHINGTON (March 9, 2020) — Including smoking cessation with existing lung cancer screening efforts would reduce lung cancer mortality by 14 percent and increase life-years gained by 81 percent compared with screening alone, according to a study led by researchers at the University of Michigan and Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The study is published […]
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