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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 28-Jun-2025 15:10 ET (28-Jun-2025 19:10 GMT/UTC)

Some cancer cells just won’t commit: Why that might be good news for neuroblastoma cancer patients

Nagoya University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Neuroblastoma is a cancer that shows a strange behavior: sometimes it regresses spontaneously, whereas other times it becomes malignant. A team from Nagoya University in Japan identified a previously unknown “uncommitted" neuroblastoma cell state and found that mice presumed to have undergone spontaneous regression exhibited a higher frequency of these uncommitted cells. Gene signatures of the uncommitted cell state were strongly associated with favorable prognosis in human neuroblastoma patients suggesting that understanding these cells could help treat this devastating disease.

Journal: Neuro-Oncology

Breast cancer incidence trends in older US women by race, ethnicity, geography, and stage

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In this population-based cross-sectional analysis of breast cancer incidence trends among older U.S. women, racial and ethnic as well as stage-specific patterns differed across age groups, highlighting the importance of disaggregating breast cancer incidence rates into age groups better aligned with screening guidelines. Future research is needed to directly examine the contribution of screening patterns to these trends and their impact on breast cancer mortality.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

City of Hope leads AI-powered health care innovations and launches generative AI tool to save lives and enable nationwide best-in-class cancer care

City of Hope
Business Announcement

City of Hope is using generative artificial intelligence to create operational efficiency, enable AI-driven patient personalization, improve access to clinical trials and empower breakthrough research

Scientists uncover cells’ survival strategy in low-nutrient environments

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

UCLA scientists have uncovered a surprising survival strategy in cancer cells that may help explain how MYC-driven cancers survive and grow despite limited resources.

Journal: Cancer & Metabolism
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

Dr. Tony Hunter awarded 2025 Szent-Györgyi Prize for pioneering cancer research

National Foundation for Cancer Research
Grant and Award Announcement

Tony Hunter, Ph.D., to be honored at the 2025 NFCR Global Summit and Award Ceremonies for Cancer Research & Entrepreneurship in Washington, D.C., for his landmark discovery that opened the field of tyrosine kinase signaling and revolutionized cancer treatment.

“We’re aiming for a cure.” Massey and VIMM researchers achieve potential breakthrough in brain cancer treatment

Virginia Commonwealth University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center and the VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM) discovered a new and potentially revolutionary way to treat glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive type of brain cancer with no curative treatment options. An innovative study – led by Paul B. Fisher, MPh, Ph.D., FNAI, and Swadesh K. Das, Ph.D., and recently published in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer – created a novel molecule that demonstrated the capability to introduce a combination of treatment outcomes – direct toxicity and immunotoxicity – to kill the tumor while exploiting immunotherapy to potentially prevent the recurrence of GBM via a “Fusion Superkine” (FSK), containing dual acting therapeutic cytokines in a single molecule.

Journal: Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

AI tool set to transform characterisation and treatment of cancers

Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A multinational team of researchers, co-led by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, has developed and tested a new AI tool to better characterise the diversity of individual cells within tumours, opening doors for more targeted therapies for patients.

Journal: Cancer Discovery

Cancer treatments and Panama Canal efficiency: Purdue Innovates Incubator funds projects to advance university innovations

Purdue University
Grant and Award Announcement

Two Purdue University researchers have received $50,000 apiece to develop their innovations in the fields of cancer treatments and freshwater management. The funding comes from the Trask Innovation Fund, managed by Purdue Innovates Incubator. The fund supports Purdue researchers through the “valley of death," the time to move an innovation from laboratory creation to marketplace product.

Funder: Purdue Research Foundation

WIN International Molecular Tumor Board recommends tailored treatment for advanced colorectal cancer

Impact Journals LLC
Peer-Reviewed Publication

BUFFALO, NY – June 24, 2025 – A new precision oncology paper was published in Volume 16 of Oncotarget on June 17, 2025, titled “Case Report WIN-MTB-2023001 WIN International Molecular Tumor Board A 62-year-old male with metastatic colorectal cancer with 5 prior lines of treatment.”

Journal: Oncotarget

New protein targets for cancer treatments

Université de Genève
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Cells depend on the precise reading of DNA sequences to function correctly. This process, known as gene expression, determines which genetic instructions are activated. When this fails, the wrong parts of the genome can be activated, leading to cancers and neurodevelopmental disorders. Scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have identified two proteins that play a key role in regulating this essential mechanism, paving the way for promising new treatments that could be more effective and less toxic than those currently available. Their findings are published in Nature Communications.

Journal: Nature Communications

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