Laboratory studies identify a potential way to treat human cancers with ARID1A mutations

October 10, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

A new study shows that tumor cells depleted of ARID1A — a protein that acts as a cancer suppressor — become highly sensitive to anticancer poly ADP ribose polymerase (PARP)

Study uncovers mutations and DNA structures driving bladder cancer

October 10, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

How bladder cancer originates and progresses has been illuminated as never before in a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the New York Genome Center. The researchers

Do people with MS have an increased risk of cancer?

October 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

A new study has found some cancers to be slightly more frequent in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) than in people without MS. The study is published in the October

Anthrax may be the next tool in the fight against bladder cancer

October 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Anthrax may soon help more people win the fight against bladder cancer, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says strikes about 72,000 Americans each year and kills about

Immune outposts inside kidney tumors predict post-surgery outcomes

October 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

The immune system establishes “forward operating bases,” or lymph node-like structures, inside the tumors of some patients with kidney and other urologic cancers, researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory

Standard pathology tests outperform molecular subtyping in bladder cancer

October 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

While trying to develop a comparatively easy, inexpensive way to give physicians and their patients with bladder cancer a better idea of likely outcome and best treatment options, scientists found

Saccharin derivatives give cancer cells a not-so-sweet surprise

October 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Saccharin received a bad rap after studies in the 1970s linked consumption of large amounts of the artificial sweetener to bladder cancer in laboratory rats. Later, research revealed that these

Hope for enhanced UTI treatments to minimize bladder pain

October 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Urinary tract infections (UTI’s) are painful and usually short lived — but for millions of people this is simply not the case. Low levels of infection can be found long

Scientists recreate DNA damage caused by toxins from smoking

October 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Researchers from the University of York have recreated how toxins from smoking cause unique patterns of DNA damage. The discovery could help scientists better understand the cause of bladder cancer

Novel device to improve performance of underactive bladders

October 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Individuals with an underactive bladder, for example following a spinal cord injury, often cannot sense bladder fullness or are unable to empty the bladder completely. This distressing symptom can seriously