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Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Small Trial
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 11, 2023 Source:Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Small Trial Reference:Personalized RNA neoantigen vaccines stimulate T cells in pancreatic cancer
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Artificial intelligence can be trained to spot pancreatic cancer risk three years before diagnosis: study
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 10, 2023 Source:Artificial intelligence can be trained to spot pancreatic cancer risk three years before diagnosis: study Reference:A deep learning algorithm to predict risk of pancreatic cancer from disease trajectories
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For the first time in years, researchers have identified a new susceptibility gene for breast cancer: study
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 29, 2023 Source:For the first time in years, researchers have identified a new susceptibility gene for breast cancer: study Reference:Variants in ATRIP are associated with breast cancer susceptibility in the Polish population and UK Biobank
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Prostate cancer: New combination therapy could reduce progression risk
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 27, 2023 Source:Prostate cancer: New combination therapy could reduce progression risk Reference:TALAPRO-2 Supports First-Line Talazoparib/Enzalutamide in All-Comers With mCRPC
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AI system developed to assist oncologists by predicting the effectiveness of breast cancer chemotherapy. This is just the beginning of AI forays into medicine.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 8, 2023 Source:AI can predict the effectiveness of breast cancer chemotherapy Reference:Cancer-Net BCa: Breast Cancer Pathologic Complete Response Prediction using Volumetric Deep Radiomic Features from Synthetic Correlated Diffusion Imaging
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Study prompts doctors to renew recommendations for fallopian tube removal to prevent ovarian cancer
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 6, 2023 Source:Study prompts doctors to renew recommendations for fallopian tube removal to prevent ovarian cancer Reference:Ovarian cancer population screening and mortality after long-term follow-up in the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS): a randomised controlled trialOvarian Cancer Screening and Symptom Awareness Consensus Statement
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Canadian doctors perform world-first delivery of treatment for inoperable brain tumour in kid using ultrasound
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 12, 2023 Source:Canadian doctors perform world-first delivery of treatment for inoperable brain tumour in kid using ultrasound Reference:
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Observational study of self-reported vitamin D intake and melanoma risk states, “In conclusion, regular use of vitamin D associates with fewer melanoma cases, when compared to non-use, but the causality between them is obscure.”
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 9, 2023 Source:Vitamin D supplement found to lower risk of melanoma, new study finds Reference:Regular use of vitamin D supplement is associated with fewer melanoma cases compared to non-use: a cross-sectional study in 498 adult subjects at risk of skin cancers
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Moderna and Merck report that a new mRNA anti-cancer vaccine under investigation used in combination with standard therapy to treat stage IV melanoma reduces risk of relapse compared to standard therapy alone.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 14, 2022 Source:Experimental mRNA cancer vaccine with immunotherapy reduces risk of melanoma returning, preliminary study finds Reference: Awaiting data release and publication