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Sequencing Plays Role in Treating High Risk Pediatric Brain Tumors
Michigan Medicine’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital experts make special sequencing tests routine in treating high risk pediatric brain tumors.
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Metastatic Breast Cancer: What You Should Know
Oncologist N. Lynn Henry, M.D., Ph.D., explains what metastatic breast cancer is, who it affects and how it's treated.
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Study: Aggressive Breast Cancers Store Large Amounts of Energy, Which Enables It to Spread
The finding suggests a potential target in the metabolism that could slow or prevent breast cancer metastasis.
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Surgical Innovation Course Fosters New Approach to Bone Healing
Michigan Medicine surgeons have designed a new drug delivery technology which could help with bone regeneration.
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Ovarian Cancer Survivorship and Living Without a ‘Finish Line’
An ovarian cancer diagnosis gave one 26-year-old patient new perspectives on life and adventure.
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Prostate Cancer Patients Can Pursue Healthy Sex Lives After Surgery
Prostate cancer patients can now pursue healthy sex lives/sexual relationships after surgery
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Innovative Investment Strategy Aids Search for New Cancer Drugs
Three early-stage cancer drug projects receive pilot grants to help them advance from the bench toward the bedside.
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New Drug Shows Encouraging Survival Results for Pancreatic Cancer
An early clinical trial on pancreatic cancer research finds a Wee1 inhibitor, combined with radiation and gemcitabine, is safe and potentially effective in pancreatic cancer treatment.
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Bladder Cancer Didn’t Silence Kalamazoo’s ‘Guitar Guru’
Guitarist and bladder cancer survivor, Rendal Wall of Kalamazoo, continues to live a life surrounded by music after bladder removal surgery.
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Newly Defined Cancer Driver is Fast, Furious and Loud
Researchers characterize three ways in which the gene FOXA1 mutates to trigger prostate cancer.
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By Cannibalizing Nearby Stromal Stem Cells, Some Breast Cancer Cells Gain Invasion Advantage
Cancer biologists and engineers collaborated on a device that could help predict the likelihood of breast cancer metastasis.
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Approach Could Help in Treating Glioblastoma, Other Rare Cancers
Michigan-led research presents a new way of uncovering predictive biomarkers when data from large randomized trials aren’t available.
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New Way to Predict Complications After Larynx Cancer Surgery
When the surgical wound doesn’t heal right, it can send some patients back to the operating room. A new technique tested at U-M could help identify which patients are at highest risk.
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Turning to Physicians, Family and Faith to Take on Sarcoma
How prayer and trust in his care team helped Gerald Dixon get through chemotherapy, radiation and surgery for stage 3 cancer.
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Study Explores Why Prostate Cancer Mortality is Higher in Black Men
The largest study of its kind finds societal factors and access to quality care, rather than genetics, underlies higher prostate cancer mortality rates for black men.