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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 18-Dec-2025 22:11 ET (19-Dec-2025 03:11 GMT/UTC)

Mount Sinai receives $4 million grant from American Cancer Society to launch Cancer Health Research Center

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

The American Cancer Society (ACS) has awarded The Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai a $4.08 million grant to establish the Cancer Health Research Center at Mount Sinai, a new initiative dedicated to reducing cancer-related health inequities across New York City.

Funder: American Cancer Society

5 Pew-Stewart scholars selected to pursue pioneering cancer research

Pew Charitable Trusts
Grant and Award Announcement

The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust announced the 2025 class of the Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research.

Pew supports 10 Latin American fellows pursuing scientific advances

Pew Charitable Trusts
Grant and Award Announcement

The Pew Charitable Trusts announced the 2025 class of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences.

Cancer cells can evade anti-cancer drugs by entering and surviving within bone marrow fibroblasts

Temple University Health System
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a recently published study, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center revealed for the first time that cancer cells can evade anti-cancer drugs by entering and surviving within bone marrow fibroblasts, a phenomenon they describe as “cell-in-cell.”

Journal: Blood Neoplasia

New survey: Majority of U.S. women say their health care providers have not informed them of diet’s role in prevention of breast cancer

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Reports and Proceedings

Up slightly from 16% last year, only 19% of women say a health care provider has discussed with them nutrition’s role in breast cancer risk in a new Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine/Morning Consult survey. However, fewer of those same women specifically mention diet this year when asked what steps they’re aware of that women can take to lower their chances of developing breast cancer.

Embargoed study: Breaking the link between alcohol use and pancreatic cancer

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Alcohol has been identified as the third-leading preventable cause of cancer, but little is known about the biological mechanisms behind the association. A new study sheds light on how chronic inflammation related to alcohol consumption accelerates the development of pancreatic cancer.

Journal: Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute, James Esther and King Biomedical Research Program of the Florida Department of Health, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center support grant, NIH/National Cancer Institute

RSNA AI challenge models can independently interpret mammograms

Radiological Society of North America
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Algorithms submitted for an AI Challenge hosted by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) have shown excellent performance for detecting breast cancers on mammography images, increasing screening sensitivity while maintaining low recall rates, according to a new study.

Journal: Radiology

The future of ‘personalized’ cancer treatment: Antitumor mRNA-based vaccines

Kindai University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Gastric cancer that metastasizes to the peritoneum, or the lining of the abdominal cavity, has a very poor prognosis and is challenging to treat. Now, a group of researchers has developed mRNA-based vaccines that can target tumor-specific ‘neoantigens.’ In combination with anti-PD1 therapy, these vaccines show high antitumor efficacy against gastric cancer with peritoneal metastasis. This approach can potentially be expanded in order to develop ‘personalized’ cancer vaccines for complicated cancer cases.

Journal: Gastric Cancer

New strategy to boost the effect of immunotherapy in the most aggressive form of lung cancer

IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Inhibiting a specific gene, MET, in combination with standard chemotherapy and immunotherapy, enhances treatment efficacy and limits tumor growth in small cell lung cancer (SCLC). The study, led by the Hospital del Mar Research Institute, analyzed the effect of MET inhibition in mouse models and studied gene expression in patient tumor samples. The results are published in Cell Reports Medicine. Researchers aim to pursue this line of research with a clinical trial involving patients.

Journal: Cell Reports Medicine

Off-the-shelf cancer vaccine elicits strong immune response in patients with pancreatic and colorectal cancer

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A novel cancer vaccine that stimulates the immune system to target one of the most common cancer-driving mutations has shown encouraging early results in patients with pancreatic and colorectal cancer, two of the most difficult-to-treat malignancies, according to a study led in part by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Journal: Nature Medicine