Progress in preventing kidney cancer recurrence
Cancer “adjuvant” therapies are treatments designed to reduce the chances of tumors coming back after surgery. But for decades, attempts to find adjuvant treatments for kidney cancer failed to...
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Blood test could reveal transition to cancer in people at risk
Scientists have devised an accurate and sensitive way to test blood to see if a pre-cancerous condition is escalating to outright cancer — potentially enabling treatment early in tumor development...
MicroRNA as an early biomarker of leukemia
A preclinical study led by an OHSU Knight Cancer Institute physician may point the way to more effective tests for recurrence of acute myeloid leukemia. Nearly half of patients diagnosed with...