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Vitamin B3 derivative Enhances Killer Cell Function to Induce Remissions in Cancer Patients
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) is a type of cancer that begins in your lymphatic system, which is part of your body's germ-fighting immune system. In NHL, white blood cells called lymphocytes grow...
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Developmental Therapeutics Getting Around Drug Resistance
The primary goal of the University of Minnesota Developmental Therapeutics Initiative (DTI) is to advance novel cancer treatments for solid tumors. With advances in personalized cancer...
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Women's Hormones Linked to Ovarian and Breast Cancers
Dr. Carol Lange at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Medicine is working to discover just what the relationship is between hormones and cancer? It has a lot to do with cells...
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Developing Immunotherapies to Combat Graft-Versus-Host Disease
You may need donor stem cells if you have an issue with your blood cells, as with cancers like leukemia or lymphoma, or other bone marrow failure diseases like aplastic anemia. An allogeneic stem...
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Non-English Speakers Undergoing Active Cancer Treatment Need Support
Did you know - according to the United States (US) Census Bureau one in five individuals speak a language other than English at home and one in ten are actually non-English speakers?
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The Aim of Bone Marrow Transplant
Bone marrow transplant (BMT) has been successfully used to treat diseases such as leukemias, lymphomas, aplastic anemia, immune deficiency disorders, and some solid tumor cancers since 1968.
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Microfluidics Devices – Analysis at a Microscale
Microfluidics devices have made it conceivable to miniaturize biochemical laboratory practices into a microchannel networking structure. Microfluidics encompasses the doctrines of physics, chemistry...
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Time Toxicity Associated With Cancer Treatment
The time burdens associated with receiving cancer care – the time spent in traveling to appointments, in waiting rooms, in infusions, in hospital wards, on annoying phone calls with insurance...
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Sickle Cell Comprehensive Care Program
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a disorder characterized by abnormal protein in your red blood cells that carries oxygen to your body's organs and tissues and transports carbon dioxide from your organs...
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Family from Minneapolis Provides Evidence Linking an Inherited Mutation with Cancer and Leukemia Risk
Aging is linked to mutations in normally dividing cells, including the stem cells that give rise to blood cells. Certain changes of blood cells may predict the development of cancer and other age-...
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