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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 14-Aug-2025 08:11 ET (14-Aug-2025 12:11 GMT/UTC)

OU researchers study effects of cannabis on facial wound healing after surgery

University of Oklahoma
Business Announcement

OKLAHOMA CITY – University of Oklahoma researchers are conducting a first-of-its-kind study to determine whether cannabis use affects recovery from the wounds associated with head and neck cancer surgery. The outcomes may have implications for other types of surgery and conditions.

Funder: Presbyterian Health Foundation

Potential link between fatigue and breast cancer recurrence

George Mason University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Ali Weinstein, professor of global and community health and senior scholar at the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being studied how breast cancer survivors respond to physically and mentally tiring tasks. Researchers measured changes in both inflammation and participants’ self-reported fatigue, two common symptoms among breast cancer survivors that are believed to be connected, impact quality of life, and may also play a role in cancer recurrence.

Journal: BMC Women s Health

Mount Sinai receives $4 million grant from American Cancer Society to launch Cancer Health Research Center

The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Grant and Award Announcement

The American Cancer Society (ACS) has awarded The Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai a $4.08 million grant to establish the Cancer Health Research Center at Mount Sinai, a new initiative dedicated to reducing cancer-related health inequities across New York City.

Funder: American Cancer Society

5 Pew-Stewart scholars selected to pursue pioneering cancer research

Pew Charitable Trusts
Grant and Award Announcement

The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Trust announced the 2025 class of the Pew-Stewart Scholars Program for Cancer Research.

Pew supports 10 Latin American fellows pursuing scientific advances

Pew Charitable Trusts
Grant and Award Announcement

The Pew Charitable Trusts announced the 2025 class of the Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences.

Cancer cells can evade anti-cancer drugs by entering and surviving within bone marrow fibroblasts

Temple University Health System
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a recently published study, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center revealed for the first time that cancer cells can evade anti-cancer drugs by entering and surviving within bone marrow fibroblasts, a phenomenon they describe as “cell-in-cell.”

Journal: Blood Neoplasia

New survey: Majority of U.S. women say their health care providers have not informed them of diet’s role in prevention of breast cancer

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Reports and Proceedings

Up slightly from 16% last year, only 19% of women say a health care provider has discussed with them nutrition’s role in breast cancer risk in a new Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine/Morning Consult survey. However, fewer of those same women specifically mention diet this year when asked what steps they’re aware of that women can take to lower their chances of developing breast cancer.

RSNA AI challenge models can independently interpret mammograms

Radiological Society of North America
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Algorithms submitted for an AI Challenge hosted by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) have shown excellent performance for detecting breast cancers on mammography images, increasing screening sensitivity while maintaining low recall rates, according to a new study.

Journal: Radiology

Embargoed study: Breaking the link between alcohol use and pancreatic cancer

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Alcohol has been identified as the third-leading preventable cause of cancer, but little is known about the biological mechanisms behind the association. A new study sheds light on how chronic inflammation related to alcohol consumption accelerates the development of pancreatic cancer.

Journal: Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Funder: James Esther and King Biomedical Research Program of the Florida Department of Health, Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center support grant

The future of ‘personalized’ cancer treatment: Antitumor mRNA-based vaccines

Kindai University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Gastric cancer that metastasizes to the peritoneum, or the lining of the abdominal cavity, has a very poor prognosis and is challenging to treat. Now, a group of researchers has developed mRNA-based vaccines that can target tumor-specific ‘neoantigens.’ In combination with anti-PD1 therapy, these vaccines show high antitumor efficacy against gastric cancer with peritoneal metastasis. This approach can potentially be expanded in order to develop ‘personalized’ cancer vaccines for complicated cancer cases.

Journal: Gastric Cancer

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