Items Tagged ‘Cancer Research’
September 7, 2021
By Susan Murphy 
Mayo Clinic researchers are taking a distinctive all-hands-on-deck approach to cancer, driven by advanced genetic analysis and clinical sciences to personalize treatments for every cancer patient. Clinicians and researchers work side by side, developing groundbreaking therapies to provide patients with answers, treatment options and optimism. This year’s virtual Mayo Clinic Individualizing Medicine Conference on Oct. […]
Tags: cancer genomics, Cancer Research, individualized medicine, Individualized Medicine Conference 2016
August 24, 2021
A new understanding of the inner workings of CAR-T cell therapy
Mayo Clinic researchers have biomanufactured chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T cell therapy) in a new way to track the cells’ cancer fighting journey and predict toxic side effects. This Mayo Clinic breakthrough, published in Cancer Immunology Research, also could unravel the mystery of how to unleash CAR-T cell therapy to destroy solid tumors. “This […]
June 4, 2021
Groundbreaking Early Cancer Detection Test Studied at Mayo Clinic Introduced Nationally
Mayo Clinic today recognized the debut of a groundbreaking multi-cancer early cancer detection (MCED) test called Galleri™ that can detect more than 50 types of cancers[1] through a simple blood draw. The Galleri test is intended to complement U.S. guideline-recommended cancer screenings. Mayo Clinic Oncologist Minetta Liu, M.D. was involved in the development of the […]
Tags: #Dr. Minetta Liu, Cancer Research, mayo clinic, Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine
December 24, 2020
2020 Mayo Clinic Precision Medicine Advances
By Susan Murphy
This year, Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine was at the forefront of COVID-19 research, working to unravel the complexities of the virus in order to discover life-saving treatments and prevention — from testing to building a pandemic response biobank to identifying COVID-19 strains within individual patients. But even in the midst of the pandemic, […]
Tags: #Artificial Intelligence, Cancer Research, Genetics, genomics, individualized medicine, multi-omics, Research
November 2, 2020
Mayo Clinic study finds 1 in 8 patients with cancer harbor inherited genetic mutations
By Susan Murphy
Genetic testing can uncover inherited genetic mutations, and could individualize cancer therapies, improve survival, manage cancer in loved ones and push the boundaries of precision medicine. In a new study published in JAMA Oncology, scientists with Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine conducted genetic testing in more than 3,000 patients who were diagnosed with cancer […]
Tags: cancer genomics, Cancer Research, Genetic Testing, Genetics, Individualizing Medicine, Inherited cancer, Research
June 1, 2020
Seeing cancer, but not through a microscope
By Susan Murphy
By Marla Broadfoot, Ph.D. / Discovery’s Edge Toward the end of the 19th century, a French doctor named Ernest Besnier coined the term “biopsy,” combining the Greek bios (life) and opsis (a sight). In the decades since, clinicians have performed countless biopsies on suspected cancer patients, all to catch a glimpse of cells on the […]
Tags: cancer, Cancer Research, Genetics, Research
March 5, 2020
Rise in kidney cancer spurs Mayo researcher’s urgency to improve patient outcomes
As a trainee oncologist, Thai Ho, M.D., Ph.D., was struck by the number of people he saw at a veterans’ hospital with kidney cancer. “It’s one of the cancers that disproportionately affects military personnel, possibly due to environmental exposures,” he says. The results can be devastating. “On average, patients with kidney cancer lose 12 years […]
Tags: cancer, Cancer Research, Epigenetic research, Epigenomics, kidney cancer, Research
February 20, 2020
Mayo researchers’ endometrial cancer discovery could lead to window of opportunity for prevention
By Susan Murphy
What if a doctor could alert a woman a year or more in advance that she is likely to develop endometrial cancer? Researchers at Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine have found evidence linking functional modification of certain genes to the emergence of the disease, providing a novel opportunity for intervention and prevention. The new […]
Tags: #endometrial biopsy, cancer, Cancer Research, Endometrial cancer, Epigenetic research, Epigenomics
December 30, 2019
In Florida, a powerhouse of cancer research
By Susan Murphy
By Sara Nick The Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, which spans Mayo Clinic’s Arizona, Florida and Minnesota locations, has 10 distinct research programs funded by the National Cancer Institute that are centered on broad areas such as immunology and gene therapy, or specific tumor types such as brain and gastrointestinal. Each research topic is treated with a multidisciplinary approach that ties together science, clinical relevance […]
Tags: #gastrointestinal cancer, cancer, Cancer Research, gene sequencing, immunology
November 21, 2019
Nobel Laureates’ discovery paves way for research and patient care at Mayo Clinic
By Susan Murphy
Three pioneering scientists, outside of Mayo Clinic, who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of how cells adapt to oxygen availability helped lay the foundation of research and patient care, enabling a unique service at Mayo Clinic — the von Hippel-Lindau Clinic. “The understanding of how the body senses […]
Tags: Cancer Research, cells, Oxygen, von Hippel-Lindau Clinic