Roswell Park Researchers Identify New Biomarker of Response to Checkpoint Inhibitors
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A team of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers has identified a new biomarker that could predict response to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) shortly after patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) initiate therapy. This discovery, published today in the journal Nature Communications, is not only an important step forward in lung cancer treatment, but also has implications for other malignancies, according to lead author Fumito Ito, MD, PhD, FACS.
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VIDEO: Heather Brandt, Ph.D., leads cancer prevention community outreach projects for St. Jude Children s Research Hospital. Here she explains why HPV vaccination is so important. view more
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Today, on International HPV Awareness Day, St. Jude Children s Research Hospital has announced the launch of the HPV Cancer Prevention Program. With an investment of $12 million, St. Jude has hired a dedicated staff of six to develop outreach programs to reduce human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancer deaths by increasing HPV vaccination rates locally and nationally, and eventually, globally.
Development for this program began as a response to the 2016 Biden Cancer Moonshot initiative that highlighted the impact of HPV-associated cancers and the need to do more to prevent them. In 2018, the St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center joined all other National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers to call for in
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SAN ANTONIO, March 4, 2021 People who have had major sinus surgery should consult their ENT doctor before undergoing COVID-19 swab testing, new research indicates.
Likewise, those performing swab testing should ask whether the patient has had extensive sinus or skull base surgery, said Philip G. Chen, MD, study senior author from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio). If so, other modes of testing such as at the back of the throat should be performed, said Dr. Chen, associate professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery in the university s Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine.
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