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ergophobe

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Cancer Moonshot
« on: September 22, 2024, 12:47:57 AM »
I don't know what if anything all the recent cancer news has to do with the 2020 injection of funding... but catching up on my futurity feed and I see three cancer stories (that's an unusual amount).

Immune cells can turn into pro-cancer traitors
https://www.futurity.org/pro-tumor-immune-cells-3248232/
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Studying the behavior of these “pro-tumor” immune cells is important because they could be targets for therapies that block their harmful activity


Drug kills triple negative breast cancer cells
https://www.futurity.org/drug-kills-triple-negative-breast-cancer-cells-3248422/
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A recent study offers a new approach to treating TNBC: targeting cholesterol synthesis.


Nanoparticles deliver drugs to kill cancer cells in mice
https://www.futurity.org/nanoparticles-cancer-drug-delivery-3249162/
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Researchers have developed a nanomedicine that increases the penetration and accumulation of chemotherapy drugs in tumor tissues and effectively kills cancer cells in mice.