Radiation Therapy Overcomes Immunotherapy Resistance in Some Cancers“By sparking the immune system into action, radiation therapy makes certain tumors that resist immunotherapy susceptible to the treatment, leading to positive outcomes for patients, according to new...
Multi-cohort analysis identifies a blood-based immune transcriptomic signature for early lung cancer detection“Early diagnosis of lung cancer is critical for timely intervention and reducing mortality. The immune system and cancer are intricately linked, which...
Ensuring Coverage of Faster Biomarker Testing in Lung Cancer: Robert Kratzke, MD“Delays in molecular testing for patients with non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) can lead to treatment lags that cost lives, warned Robert Kratzke, MD, professor of medicine and head of...
Air Pollution ‘Strongly Associated’ With DNA Mutations Tied to Lung Cancer“Lung cancer cases are on the rise in non-smokers around the world, and air pollution could be an insidious, contributing factor. A genome study has now found that outdoor smog and...
New AI Tool Enhances Precision of Lung Cancer Radiation Therapy“A new artificial intelligence tool developed by researchers at Northwestern Medicine has matched expert physicians in mapping lung tumors for radiation therapy and may even improve on their accuracy by...
Two-in-one treatment targets ‘undruggable’ lung cancer“Takeshi Shimamura, an associate professor of surgery in the College of Medicine, sees cancer as a many-headed monster: adaptive, relentless and difficult to eradicate. Thwarting its progress is his Herculean...
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