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Searchresult: €5.7 million for novel treatment approaches in pediatric brain cancer€5.7 million for novel treatment approaches in pediatric brain cancer Date: 30.06.2017 Press release content type: Press release
Children with low grade brain cancer usually suffer many years of distress. An international initiative that is coordinated at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Hopp Children's Tumor…
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Searchresult: Improving Outcomes Through Personalized MedicineImproving Outcomes Through Personalized Medicine Date: 28.06.2017 Press release content type: Press release
How can the individual molecular origins of a disease be used to achieve enhancements in prevention, diagnosis and, above all, therapy? This question is the conference theme of an international…
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Searchresult: Double imaging of prostate cancer
Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) are developing a radiopharmaceutical that visualizes prostate cancer in two different ways: Radioactive labeling facilitates detection of a…
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Searchresult: MRI without contrast agents? Yes, with sugar!MRI without contrast agents? Yes, with sugar! Date: 23.06.2017 Press release content type: Press release
Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), in collaboration with colleagues from Heidelberg University Hospital, have been able to visualize brain cancer using a novel MRI method. They…
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Searchresult: Mysterious gene transcripts after cancer therapyMysterious gene transcripts after cancer therapy Date: 12.06.2017 Press release content type: Press release
Drugs that are used in cancer therapy to erase epigenetic alterations in cancer cells simultaneously promote the production of countless mysterious gene transcripts, scientists from the German Cancer…
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Searchresult: How bile duct cancer develops and how it can be preventedHow bile duct cancer develops and how it can be prevented Date: 12.06.2017 Press release content type: Press release
What promotes the development of bile duct cancer in the liver? Are these factors different from those that are responsible for the much more common hepatocellular carcinomas? Scientists from the…
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Searchresult: Cancer prevention: Colonoscopy could save even more livesCancer prevention: Colonoscopy could save even more lives Date: 06.06.2017 Press release content type: Press release
Colonoscopy presumably prevented more than 25,000 deaths from colorectal cancer in Germany in the years 2008-2011, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) report. They also…
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Searchresult: DKTK Essen/Düsseldorf: New findings support immunotherapy of skin cancerDKTK Essen/Düsseldorf: New findings support immunotherapy of skin cancer Date: 31.05.2017 Press release content type: Press release
Merkel cell carcinoma of the skin is often invisible for the body’s immune defense because it silences specific genes of the immune system. Scientists from the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) at the…
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Searchresult: Blocking cancer-specific mutations in leukemia and brain tumorsBlocking cancer-specific mutations in leukemia and brain tumors Date: 30.05.2017 Press release content type: Press release
The substitution of a single amino acid in a metabolic enzyme can be the cause of various types of cancer. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and Heidelberg University Hospital,…
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Searchresult: Macrophages control the development of nerves and blood vessels in the brainMacrophages control the development of nerves and blood vessels in the brain Date: 29.05.2017 Press release content type: Press release
Nerve cells and blood vessels have striking common features during their development. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have shown that macrophages control the growth and…
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