Readers are advised this story contains graphic images. She was diagnosed with nodular melanoma, an aggressive form of cancer that can grow and spread quickly. "From that day forward, it's been a ...

mRNA specialist BioNTech has chalked up an important win in its cancer pipeline, showing efficacy with its BNT111 vaccine candidate in a phase 2 trial in advanced melanoma. The study is looking at ...

The melanoma pathologist had surgery early last week which confirmed the recurrence of a brain tumour. He was advised by his medical team that he only had months to live. "I am positive about it ...

Comparison of laparoscopic radiofrequency ablation with percutaneous radiofrequency ablation in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B-related hepatocellular carcinoma involving specific sites: A ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Approximately 10% of South Asian immigrants aged 45 and older in Canada have hypothyroidism, with a 77% higher likelihood compared to Canadian-born individuals ...

Over the past two years, Mellencamp has had 17 different spots of melanoma removed, and recently discovered the cancer had spread. Back in February, she underwent emergency surgery after doctors ...

Nodular melanoma is a fast-growing, aggressive form of skin cancer that can grow into the deeper layers of the skin quickly if not removed. It is the second most common kind of melanoma. Even so, ...

During fibrosis, (myo)fibroblasts deposit large amounts of extracellular matrix proteins, thereby replacing healthy functional tissue. In liver fibrosis, this leads to the loss of hepatocyte function, ...

Extracellular vesicles (EVs), as cell-derived small vesicles, facilitate intercellular communication within the tumor microenvironment (TME) by transporting biomolecules. EVs from different sources ...

One proposed mechanism of resistance to therapy has been the uniquely desmoplastic tumour microenvironment (TME) of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). Included in this TME, high stromal density ...