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TuesdayOct 28, 2025 10:00 am

What Patients Need to Know About the Remission Rate of Glioblastomas

Patients are overwhelmed when they are diagnosed with glioblastoma, the most deadly primary brain cancer. It resists existing treatments and recurs in all patients, with a relatively short survival time averaging 14-18 months. Understanding the rate of remission for this disease can therefore enable patients and their caregivers to have a clear picture of what to expect, and therefore be guided in making any decisions they need to make. We discuss some of the factors influencing remission in GBM. It is important to note that GBM tumors almost always regrow, so remission in this case should be viewed as the…

FridayOct 24, 2025 10:00 am

New LED Therapy Kills Cancer Cells While Sparing Healthy Tissues

Many existing cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation, don’t distinguish between cancer cells and healthy body cells, and the healthy cells killed alongside cancer cells result in harsh side effects. Researchers are constantly looking for new treatments that are better able to target cancer cells while leaving healthy cells untouched. A new study seems to have uncovered a therapy that could do just that. The study, conducted through a collaboration between a team at University of Texas, Austin, and another team at the University of Porto, Portugal, leveraged a combination of using nano-sized tin particles together with LED light.…

ThursdayOct 23, 2025 10:00 am

New Study Provides Insights on the Cost of Treating Firearm Injuries in America

A study whose findings were recently published has provided insights into the cost of treating injuries resulting from firearms, with a key finding being that Medicaid was billed for a little more than half of the total amount of money spent on these injuries during the period covered by the study. The study, which was conducted by a joint team from the University of Michigan and Northwestern University in Illinois, focused on the initial treatment that individuals received when they visited a hospital after sustaining firearm injuries. For their study, the researchers obtained data on inpatient and emergency department visits…

TuesdayOct 21, 2025 10:00 am

Researchers Develop Nanoparticles That Could Combat Scarring, Inflammation in ARLD

In the U.S., liver disease claims the lives of at least 52,000 people annually. Globally, statistics suggest that 1.5 billion individuals are affected by liver disease. However, ARLD, or alcohol-related liver disease, hasn’t garnered traction within the scientific community, until now. A study undertaken by a team at Texas A&M University has developed a novel therapy that could transform how ARLD is treated. Doctor Jyothi Menon, the lead researcher of this study, explains that the rising cases of liver diseases increase the risk of potentially life-threatening complications like cancer developing from these liver diseases. She adds that this concern drove…

FridayOct 17, 2025 10:00 am

Virtual Brain Tumors Could Transform How Cancer is Treated

Brain tumors, such as glioblastoma, are very hard to treat and even surgery isn’t sufficient to fully remove the tumor since tiny particles of cancerous cells remain and proliferate within a short time. However, ongoing work at Cedars-Sinai promises to transform brain cancer treatment by creating a digital twin of a patient’s tumor and then predicting how the cancer will grow and how it could respond to different therapies. In this way, treatment teams can better personalize treatments for individual patients. At the heart of this work is Kristin Swanson, PhD, who is engaged in pioneering work that combines mathematics…

ThursdayOct 16, 2025 10:00 am

Researchers Urge Canadians to Donate Toenails, for Science

A new study that is being planned by scientists at the University of Calgary, Canada, is looking to receive up to 10,000 toenail samples from volunteers around the country. The reason for this seemingly odd request is to study how to accurately measure how much radon someone has been exposed to and link this exposure to their risk of developing lung cancer. The drivers of the development of lung cancer have been quite an enigma to the scientific community. While smoking has been identified to be a leading cause of the disease, a notable fraction of lung cancer patients don’t…

TuesdayOct 14, 2025 10:00 am

New Report Highlights Concerning Trends in the US Health Care System

There is general agreement that the U.S. health care system has issues, but there isn’t consensus on what exactly needs to be done to fix those issues. A new report published by Trilliant Health, an economic analysis company, points out some notable trends that should be given the attention they deserve by health care system stakeholders. The authors indicate in the report that by 2033, the share of GDP going into health care costs will climb to 20.3%. On the surface, this may look like increasing amounts of resources are going to be channeled into health care and this would…

FridayOct 10, 2025 10:00 am

How You Can Support Your Loved One Undergoing Cancer Treatment

Having a loved one diagnosed with cancer can be a very difficult time for that person and those within their immediate circle. It is often difficult to know how to support the patient during their treatment and some people make mistakes in their bid to be supportive. We discuss some suggestions that could be helpful if a loved one is undergoing cancer treatment. For starters, it is good to focus on what you are good at and offer help along those lines. Don’t try to be or do everything in your bid to help. For example, if you come from…

ThursdayOct 09, 2025 10:00 am

Scientists Stunned Upon Discovering Glioblastoma Erodes Skull Tissue

For long, treatment approaches to glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer, have assumed that the disease is localized. However, a recent study has found that GBM erodes the skulls of its victims and this could partially explain why the current therapies have had dismal success rates against the tumors. For their study, the team analyzed scans of the skulls of mice afflicted by two types of glioblastoma. They found that the skulls were thinner than they should be. On examining scans of humans with GBM, they found altered skull thickness, especially in the areas where bones fused. The study…

TuesdayOct 07, 2025 10:00 am

Lund University Researchers Discover Why Leukemia Cells Evade the Immune System

While immunotherapy has scored a significant level of success in treating many types of cancer, it hasn’t registered similar efficacy in leukemia, especially acute myeloid leukemia, also known as AML. Researchers at Lund University, Sweden have found a possible reason why this could be so. The team sought to identify any unique surface proteins on leukemia cells that could be targeted with new forms of treatment, especially if those unique proteins didn’t exist on healthy cells. Thoas Fioretos, who led the research team, explains that they found one protein on the surface of leukemia stem cells and this particular protein…