Good News Notes: “Results from a study of a blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer suggest that it is accurate enough to be used as a screening tool among people at higher risk of the disease, including those who are not symptomatic. In a paper published in the leading cancer journal…
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Tuberculosis drug causes “power failure” in ultra-fit cancer cells
Good News Notes: “Leveraging a newfound ability to identify the “fittest” metastatic cancer cells, scientists at the UK’s University of Salford have discovered that an already approved drug can be deployed to cut off their fuel supply, while leaving normal healthy cells unharmed. Metastatic cancer cells are dangerous, fast-moving cells cancer cells that have spread…
FDA Approves First Therapy for Patients with Lung and Thyroid Cancers with a Certain Genetic Mutation or Fusion
Good News Notes: “Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Retevmo (selpercatinib) capsules to treat three types of tumors – non-small cell lung cancer, medullary thyroid cancer and other types of thyroid cancers – in patients whose tumors have an alteration (mutation or fusion) in a specific gene (RET or “rearranged during transfection”). Retevmo…
Arkansas firefighter’s life saved after car crash leads doctors to shocking discovery
Good News Notes: “”After being taken to two hospitals, doctors revealed the true cause of his dizziness: Three malignant tumors were found on his brain and another on his kidney.”Last month, a Faulkner County firefighter was rear-ended while he was at a stop waiting to merge. Little did he know the unfortunate crash would save…