A step toward treating chemotherapy-resistant prostate cancer

October 8, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Prostate cancer is a leading cause of death among American men, and it’s resistant to one of the most powerful chemotherapy medications — cisplatin. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Central

Advanced bladder cancer patients could keep their bladder under new treatment regime, clinical trial shows

October 8, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Mount Sinai investigators have developed a new approach for treating invasive bladder cancer without the need for surgical removal of the bladder, according to a study published in Nature Medicine

Cancer’s sweet Achilles heel | ScienceDaily

October 8, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

An old campaign slogan for cough syrup, “It tastes awful. And it works,” seemed to imply that any sweet content might have diminished the medicinal effect. Sweetness, in the case

Breakthrough in bladder cancer research

October 8, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

After 40 years of treating metastatic bladder cancer with chemotherapy as a primary treatment, scientists now present a new approach using immunotherapy combinations. The results of not just one, but

Prostate cancer: Newly-developed inhibitor shows massive potential

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

More than 65,000 men fall ill with prostate cancer each year in Germany. Twelve thousand of them develop a treatment-resistant form which eventually ends in death. Now, a team of

Mapping the evolution of urinary tract cancer cells

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have performed the most comprehensive analysis to date of cancer of the ureters or the urine-collection cavities in the kidney, known as upper tract urothelial

Researchers discover a mechanism that could improve platinum-based cancer therapy

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Researchers have identified a protein that, when targeted, enables cisplatin-resistant cancer cells to become responsive to treatment. Cisplatin, and other similar platinum drugs, are incredibly effective at killing rapidly growing

Drug helps reprogram macrophage immune cells, suppress prostate and bladder tumor growth

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

A novel therapy that reprograms immune cells to promote antitumor activity helped shrink hard-to-treat prostate and bladder cancers in mice, according to research from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center

Innovative combination therapy shows promise for bladder cancer patients unresponsive to standard treatment

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

In a groundbreaking advance that could revolutionize bladder cancer treatment, a novel combination of cretostimogene grenadenorepvec and pembrolizumab has shown remarkable efficacy in patients with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-unresponsive non-muscle invasive

New combination treatment brings hope to patients with advanced bladder cancer

October 7, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Findings from the international FORT-2 clinical trial showed that a combination treatment including immunotherapy is safe and tolerable in patients with locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer. The results, which