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Local Students Join Cancer Researchers’ Labs for the Summer
A new program, the Research Cures Cancer Corps (RC3), aims to create a broader pipeline to careers in cancer research. In summer 2022, ten local high school students had the rare...
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New Discoveries from Baker Laboratory may Help Usher in New Era of Cancer Immunotherapy
Scientists at the University of Notre Dame contributed to research published in Nature Medicine outlining the identification of a long-sought-after class of molecules that may...
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A Personal Vendetta against Cancer: Cancer survivor builds tissue bank for Harper research
Toni Page-Mayberry vividly recalls the start of her meeting in 2014 with an oncologist about her husband’s cancer diagnosis. The doctor sat them down and said Jay had stage 4...
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Researchers discover critical process for how breast cancer spreads in bones
Once breast cancer spreads to bone, options for treatment are limited. Breast cancer cells can lie dormant in the bone, often undetectable and able to escape typical treatments....
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Cancer Cells Thrive in Stiff Tissue, According to New Study
Stiffer breast tissue creates an environment more prone to cancer by enabling the disease to interfere with the surrounding healthy cells, according to a recent study published...
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Fighting for Better Cancer Detection
It seems black and white: Either you have cancer or you don’t. But for many women the answer is gray. Hazy mammogram gray. In the United States alone, there are nearly 240,000...
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Researchers Discover Novel Mechanism Linking Changes in Mitochondria to Cancer Cell Death
To stop the spread of cancer, cancer cells must die. Unfortunately, many types of cancer cells seem to use innate mechanisms that block cancer cell death, therefore allowing the...
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Global Health Colloquium: Cancer Health Disparities
Join the Eck Institute for Global Health in collaboration with the Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI) for talks from HCRI’s Associate Director, Andy Bullock, and affiliated...
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Dare to Imagine Curing Cancer
More than 100 years ago, New York physician William Coley pioneered methods that relied on the body’s immune system to treat cancer. Although quickly surpassed by advances in...
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Fighting for Those Touched by Cancer
One out of every three people receiving treatment for cancer also struggle with anxiety and clinical depression. Even when cancer patients survive the disease, they suffer from...
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Developing an ‘on and off’ Switch for Breast Cancer Treatment
T-cells play an important role in the body’s immune system, and one of their tasks is to find and destroy infection. However, T-cells struggle to identify solid, cancerous...
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