University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center researchers have developed a novel prompt, or ‘nudge,’ embedded in the electronic health record that flags, for treating surgeons, older patients with early-stage breast cancer who may be at risk for unnecessary lymph node surgery.
New preclinical data for PHST001, an anti-CD24 antibody drug candidate that is designed to block a key macrophage “don’t eat me” signal on cancer cells, were presented at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer. The meeting is taking place both virtually and at the George R. Brown Convention Center in...
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have identified 16 genes that breast cancer cells use to survive in the bloodstream after they’ve escaped the low-oxygen regions of a tumor. Each is a potential therapeutic target to stop cancer recurrence, and one—MUC1—is already in clinical trials. The research was published online Sept. 28 in...
