9 cancer studies to know

Here are nine cancer studies and research you might have missed:

  1. A breast cancer vaccine has shown promise in a phase 1 trial spearheaded by researchers at Seattle-based University of Washington's Cancer Vaccine Institute and is preparing to move to phase 2.

  2. A World Health Organization analysis classified non-sugar sweetener aspartame as possibly carcinogenic to humans, but the FDA disagrees with the assessment.

  3. Researchers at Boston-based Mass General Cancer Center found a treatment that reduced a rare type of brain tumor by an average of 91 percent in a clinical trial.

  4. Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging does not "significantly reduce positive margins" following breast-conserving surgery.

  5. Scientists used CRISPR to cut extra chromosomes from cancer, showing that cancer cells cannot proliferate without them.

  6. Automated liquid biopsy tests developed by researchers at the Washington, D.C.-based Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center can predict early disease progression and potential survival among patients with metastatic breast cancer in as little as one month.

  7. Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth found combining diagnosis and early lung cancer treatment into the same procedure, while the patient is under a single anesthesia, reduces time between detection, treatment, length of hospital stay and lowers rate of complications. to both diagnose and treat early lung cancer was recently published in a peer-reviewed journal.

  8. Washington, D.C.-based Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers found Hispanic and Black female survivors of breast cancer experience higher death rates after being diagnosed with a second primary cancer.

  9. Investigators from Boston-based Mass General Brigham found a link between certain types of gut bacteria to the development of precancerous colon polyps.

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