Opinion | ‘Colonoscopy Is Not Effective if You Don’t Do It’: What We Heard This Week
“Colonoscopy is not effective if you don’t do it.” — George Chang, MD, of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, responding to findings from a European colonoscopy trial that suggested potentially less benefit from colon cancer screening than expected. “Our country was founded on a philosophy of individual liberty, and in many spheres of life […]
When Does The Pursuit Of Health Become Unhealthy?
Diabetes UK ambassador Jack Anderson shares how it felt to realise his “healthy” eating habits were wreaking damage on his body.
5 Things I’ve Learnt About Masculinity Through Living With Diabetes
Jack Anderson shares five things he’s learnt about masculinity through living with diabetes.
Researchers discover new leukemia-killing compounds: Potential of mitochondria-targeted chemotherapies
Researchers from Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered potential new drugs that work in concert with other drugs to deliver a deadly one-two punch to leukemia. The potential drugs are still years away from being tested in cancer patients, but a recently published study in the journal Leukemia […]
Ultrasound-guided microbubbles boost immunotherapy efficacy: New platform to improve both antitumor immune responses and responses to checkpoint inhibitors
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed an ultrasound-guided cancer immunotherapy platform that generates systemic antitumor immunity and improves the therapeutic efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade. The findings from the preclinical study were published today in Nature Nanotechnology. As the first-of-its-kind platform, the Microbubble-assisted UltraSound-guided Immunotherapy of Cancer (MUSIC) approach […]