New research in JNCCN found that older people with cancer had better daily functioning, improved mood, stronger illness understanding, and a higher quality of life if they participated in a telehealth-based care program.

As cancer neuroscience continues to evolve, this review delves into the pivotal role of neurotransmitter receptors at the intersection of neurobiology and tumor biology. By analyzing involvement in key signaling pathways such as β-adrenergic and GABAergic, the study uncovers how these receptors drive cancer progression, modulate immune responses, and contribute to therapy resistance. Highlighting emerging NR-targeted therapies, the review sets the stage for more personalized, precision-based cancer treatments and marks a promising direction for future research. 

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic are developing vaccines targeting pancreatic cancer that could eliminate the disease, leaving a patient cancer-free. So far, the vaccines have achieved dramatic results in studies with preclinical models.

Harnessing the artificial intelligence (AI) driven platform, IDentif.AI, researchers from the Institute for Digital Medicine (WisDM), Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, NUS and the Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering at the University of California San Diego, sought to uncover sex-specific drug combinations that may slow or halt AVS progression. IDentif.AI optimised drug combinations to inhibit aortic valve myofibroblast activation—a hallmark of AVS which refers to a process causing valve cells to stiffen and scar—in female and male valve cells isolated from laboratory models. The AI platform pinpointed a list of female-biased combinations (e.g. Y-27632/SB-203580/SD-208) that were more effective in addressing AVS in female cells, while AI-optimised male-biased combinations (e.g.  LY294002/Irosustat/TM5441) were notably more effective in male cells.

Realizing the point-of-care tumor markers biodetection with good convenience and high sensitivity possesses great significance for prompting cancer monitoring and screening in biomedical study field. Herein, the quantum dots luminescence and microfluidic biochip with machine vision algorithm-based intelligent biosensing platform have been designed and manufactured for point-of-care tumor markers diagnostics. The employed quantum dots with excellent photoluminescent performance are modified with specific antibody as the optical labeling agents for the designed sandwich structure immunoassay. The corresponding biosensing investigations of the designed biodetection platform illustrate several advantages involving high sensitivity (~ 0.021 ng mL^-1), outstanding accessibility, and great integrability. Moreover, related test results of human-sourced artificial saliva samples demonstrate better detection capabilities compared with commercially utilized rapid test strips. Combining these infusive abilities, our elaborate biosensing platform is expected to exhibit potential applications for the future point-of-care tumor markers diagnostic area.