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18-Jun-2025

Researchers uncover surprising role of 'natural killer' cells in resistance to cancer immunotherapy

Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology have uncovered that ‘natural killer’ cells (NK), a type of immune cell, may actually be hindering the immune system’s ability to attack tumors in patients who don’t respond to immune checkpoint blockade therapies (ICB), a form of immune therapy. The findings of the study have been published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Journal: Cancer Discovery
Funder: Marie Sklodowska Curie, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, KU Leuven, Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Stichting Tegen Kanker, Kom op tegen Kanker

18-Jun-2025

Severe polyneuritis successfully treated with CAR T-cell therapy

Ruhr-University Bochum
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Physicians from Bochum have used a cancer treatment method to treat severe autoimmune diseases.

Journal: The Lancet Neurology
Funder: Nasch family, Kyverna therapeutics, Inc, State of North Rhine-Westphalia

18-Jun-2025

Exploring how diet and the gastric microbiome shape gastric cancer risk

Research
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Gastric cancer (GC), once primarily seen in older adults, is on the rise among younger individuals in developed countries. In a recent review, researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong analyzed how diet, gastric microbes, and their metabolites influence the risk of GC, highlighting harmful and protective microbial species and dietary patterns. This study serves as a roadmap for GC research and points toward personalized dietary and microbiome-based strategies for GC prevention.

Journal: Research
Funder: Noncommunicable Chronic Diseases-National Science and Technology Major Project, RGC Collaborative Research Fund, RGC Research Impact Fund Hong Kong, Strategic Seed Funding Collaboration Research Scheme CUHK, Strategic Impact Enhancement Fund CUHK, Impact Case for RAE CUHK

18-Jun-2025

Tumor DNA analysis for every child in the Princess Máxima Center

Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology
Business Announcement

Readouts of the full DNA of children with cancer at diagnosis have been implemented as the standard of care in a European first. By determining a child's type of cancer as precisely as possible, the Princess Máxima Center for pediatric oncology aims to offer each individual child the treatment most likely to work for them.

17-Jun-2025

Exosomes as double-edged swords: Bridging inflammation and cancer through molecular communication and therapeutic potential

Sichuan International Medical Exchange and Promotion Association
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a review published in Molecular Biomedicine, the authors summarized the impact of exosomes on the progression of diseases through their carried cargo, affecting the microenvironment in inflammatory diseases and cancer. Moreover, exosomes have great potential as diagnostic biomarkers, therapeutic drugs, and drug delivery carriers in inflammatory diseases and cancer.

Journal: Molecular Biomedicine

17-Jun-2025

Novel fusion gene leads to diagnosis of adenoid cystic carcinoma

Temple University Health System
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new paper published by researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center highlights the case of a patient who was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) after a molecular panel identified the presence of an atypical fusion gene. The case underscores the importance of molecular testing in correctly diagnosing certain cancers, said first author Shuanzeng “Sam” Wei, MD, PhD, an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Medical Director of the Clinical Genomics Laboratory at Fox Chase. He said the team published their case study to raise awareness that the absence of the typical MYB/MYBL1 fusion genes does not rule out ACC and that the novel NFIB fusion gene can also be diagnostic.