Emerging light-powered cancer treatment gets a nanotech upgrade
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This article explores recent advances in liposomal nanotechnology for photodynamic therapy, showing how improved drug loading, targeting, and light-activated efficiency are enhancing cancer treatment outcomes.
Malignant gliomas are among the deadliest brain cancers, with limited treatment options and poor survival. A new comprehensive review analyzes decades of global clinical data on boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), a targeted radiation approach. The study finds consistent survival benefits across multiple tumor types and treatment settings. By synthesizing evidence from accelerator- and reactor-based studies worldwide, the work highlights BNCT's renewed clinical promise and outlines key challenges for broader adoption.
Scientists at City of Hope® and TGen (part of City of Hope) are the first to explain a major mechanism for why gaining excess weight increases your risk of cancer. The study, published today in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, reveals a major driving force behind how obesity increases cancer risk across multiple organs. The findings emphasize the importance of maintaining a healthy weight from early childhood and propose a potentially more accurate way than body mass index (BMI) to predict the increase in cancer risk associated with obesity.
In aggressive lymphomas, inflammatory messengers reprogram the “conductors” of the immune system, causing lymph nodes structure to collapse. A team led by Simon Haas describes in “Nature Cancer” this process for the first time using single-cell and spatial analyses.
Women who consistently met physical activity guidelines throughout middle age had half the risk of dying from any cause compared to women who remained inactive, according to a new paper publishing March 26th in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Binh Nguyen of the University of Sydney, Australia, and colleagues.