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Research Reveals How Aging Cells Can Be an Underlying Cause of Kidney Damage
WASHINGTON (December 8, 2021) — A study in mice by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that stress and tissue damage initiated by angiotensin II, a molecule that is known to increase blood pressure and stiffening in the linings of blood vessels, leads to cellular senescence, a process by which a cell […]
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Trial Stopped Early: Giving Immunotherapy Before Targeted Rx Improves Survival in Advanced Melanoma
WASHINGTON (November 15, 2021) — More people with advanced melanoma survive for two years or more when they receive a combination of two immunotherapy drugs given before a combination of two targeted therapies, if needed, compared to people who start treatment with targeted therapies. The finding comes from a clinical trial that was stopped early […]
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Experimental Drug Boosts Immunotherapy Effectiveness in Pancreatic Cancer in Mice
WASHINGTON (November 4, 2021) — An experimental drug enhanced the benefit of an immunotherapy to fight pancreatic cancer in mice by increasing the number of immune cells in the immediate vicinity of the tumor, leading to a reduction in tumor growth, and in some mice, eliminating their cancer. The findings, from researchers at Georgetown Lombardi […]
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Starting Mammography at Age 40 Would Reduce Disparities in Deaths for Black Women
WASHINGTON (October 18, 2021) — If Black women begin mammography screening every other year starting at age 40, breast cancer deaths could be reduced by 57 percent compared to starting screening 10 years later, according to analyses conducted by a modeling team that is part of the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET), funded […]
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DNA Tags Enable Blood-Based Tests to Assess Cancer Treatment Outcomes
WASHINGTON (July 27, 2021) — Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) shed into the blood was discovered in the late 1940s, but with rapid advances in genomics and computational analytics in just the past few years, researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center now believe that studying tags, or modifications to this type of DNA, may lead to […]
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Small Numbers of Cells in a Tumor Could Be Key Enablers of Cancer Metastasis
WASHINGTON (June 16, 2021) — Just a small number of cells found in tumors can enable and recruit other types of cells nearby, allowing the cancer to spread to other parts of the body, report Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists. Working with their research collaborators, the scientists found that “enabler cells” comprise about 20 […]
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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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