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Link Receives Prostate Cancer Research Grant

By Siteman Communications |

The funding will advance understanding of side effects associated with PARPi therapy, an emerging treatment for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Washington University physician-scientist Daniel C. Link, MD, will lead a study to improve treatment for…

A mixed media sketch of the brain of an hour glass, brain and magnifying glass to show how glioblastomas hijack circadian clock
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Brain Tumors Hijack Circadian Clock to Grow

By Talia Ogliore, Washington University in St. Louis |

Virtually every cell in the human body has an internal clock. These clocks take their cues from a central clock in the brain. In a normal, biological process called synchrony, the central clock coordinates daily…

Microscopic image of cell structure when probiotic delivers anticancer drugs to the gut in mice
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Probiotic Delivers Anticancer Drug to the Gut

By Marta Wegorzewska, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis |

Oral immunotherapy shrinks gastrointestinal tumors in mouse study Immunotherapy is a promising treatment that recruits the immune system to help fight cancer, but it has had limited success in gastrointestinal cancers. Now, researchers at Washington University…

Black and white image of the brain shows how researchers make glioblastoma cells vulnerable to immune cells
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Researchers Make Glioblastoma Cells Visible to Attacking Immune Cells

By Julia Evangelou Strait, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis |

Strategy involves placing targets on deadly cancer’s cells, potentially making them vulnerable to immunotherapies Even treated with the most advanced therapies, patients with glioblastoma — an aggressive brain cancer — typically survive less than two…