Hacker News with Generative AI: Cancer

Blocking a master regulator of immunity eradicates liver tumors in mice (med.stanford.edu)
A protein identified nearly 40 years ago for its ability to stimulate the production of red blood cells plays a surprising, critical role in dampening the immune system’s response to cancer.

Cancer, Medicine, Immunology, Mice, Research

9 points by geox 1 day ago | 0 comments

E. Coli linked directly to rising bowel cancer in people under 50 (theguardian.com)
Childhood exposure to a toxin produced by bacteria in the bowel may be contributing to the rise of colorectal cancer in under-50s around the world, researchers say.

Health, Science, Cancer, Bacteria

9 points by I_Nidhi 2 days ago | 0 comments

Popular CT Scans Could Account for 5% of All Cancer Cases a Year (ucsf.edu)
Computed tomography (CT) scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs.

Cancer, Health, Medical Technology, Medical Research

26 points by hsuduebc2 6 days ago | 9 comments

New strategy may enable cancer monitoring from blood tests alone (medicalxpress.com)
A new, error-corrected method for detecting cancer from blood samples is much more sensitive and accurate than prior methods and may be useful for monitoring disease status in patients following treatment, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine and New York Genome Center investigators.

Cancer, Healthcare, Medical Research, Blood Tests

7 points by wglb 9 days ago | 1 comments

CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds; experts note uncertainty (arstechnica.com)
Computed tomography scans have become vital, even lifesaving, medical imaging for diagnosing and monitoring health conditions. But they do expose patients to ionizing radiation at levels linked to higher risks of cancer.

Medical Imaging, Cancer, Health, Science

130 points by pseudolus 11 days ago | 153 comments

Overuse of CT scans could cause 100k extra cancers in US (icr.ac.uk)
The overuse of CT scans could cause over 100,000 cases of cancer in the US – with almost 10,000 cases in children, researchers have warned.

Health, Cancer, Medical Imaging, Research

36 points by ivewonyoung 11 days ago | 18 comments

CT scans could cause 5% of cancers, study finds (arstechnica.com)
Computed tomography scans have become vital, even lifesaving, medical imaging for diagnosing and monitoring health conditions. But they do expose patients to ionizing radiation at levels linked to higher risks of cancer.

Medical Imaging, Cancer, Health Risks, Radiation

13 points by jnord 11 days ago | 1 comments

Radiation from CT scans could account for 5% of all cancer cases a year (medicalxpress.com)
Radiation from CT scans may account for 5% of all cancers annually, according to a new study out of UC San Francisco that cautions against overusing and overdosing CTs.

Medical Research, Cancer, CT Scans, Healthcare

9 points by XzetaU8 11 days ago | 0 comments

AI used for skin cancer checks at London hospital (bbc.com)
An NHS hospital in west London is pioneering the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help check for skin cancer.

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Medicine, Cancer, London

103 points by chris_overseas 14 days ago | 88 comments

Tumors Have a Taste for Fructose, If It's Transformed by the Liver (genengnews.com)
Tumors Have a Taste for Fructose, If It’s Transformed by the Liver

Cancer, Fructose, Metabolism, Liver, Health

24 points by fbn79 17 days ago | 6 comments

Origami Nanobot Drug Delivery To Kill Cancer Cells (phys.org)

Nanotechnology, Medicine, Cancer, Drug Delivery

11 points by I_Nidhi 18 days ago | 0 comments

Cell Death as a Driving Force in Glioblastoma (feinberg.northwestern.edu)
Cell death has been found to be a driving factor in glioblastoma progression, according to a Northwestern-Medicine-led study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Cancer, Neuroscience, Biology, Medicine

23 points by gmays 19 days ago | 3 comments

Five Nurses who work on the same floor at hospital have brain tumors (nbcnews.com)
A Boston-area hospital is investigating after five nurses who have worked on the same floor have developed brain tumors.

Health, Medicine, Boston, Cancer, Investigation

70 points by bratao 20 days ago | 47 comments

I can smell when people have cancer (reddit.com)
Believe it or not, I can smell when someone has cancer.

Cancer, Health, Science, Human Senses

18 points by nixass 24 days ago | 9 comments

AI diagnoses major cancer with near perfect accuracy (cdu.edu.au)
One of Australia's most common gynaecological cancers could be detected sooner and more accurately thanks to a specialised Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, new research shows.

AI, Cancer, Medical Technology, Research

14 points by geox 37 days ago | 4 comments

Aspirin prevents metastasis by limiting platelet TXA2 suppression of immunity (nature.com)
Metastasis is the spread of cancer cells from primary tumours to distant organs and is the cause of 90% of cancer deaths globally1,2.

Medicine, Cancer, Science, Research

38 points by hsuduebc2 47 days ago | 1 comments

When Did I Start Getting Cancer? (nautil.us)
An environmental chemist investigates the origins of her leukemia

Cancer, Health, Science, Environment

16 points by Brajeshwar 49 days ago | 0 comments

Scientists crack how aspirin might stop cancers from spreading (bbc.com)
Scientists believe they have discovered how the cheap painkiller aspirin can stop cancers spreading.

Cancer, Medicine, Science, Healthcare

171 points by SirLJ 51 days ago | 100 comments

Aspirin prevents metastasis by limiting TXA2 suppression of T cell immunity (nature.com)
Metastasis is the spread of cancer cells from primary tumours to distant organs and is the cause of 90% of cancer deaths globally1,2.

Cancer, Medicine, Science, Immunity

13 points by gnabgib 51 days ago | 1 comments

Tattoo ink exposure is associated with lymphoma and skin cancers (biomedcentral.com)
We aim to study the potential association between tattoo ink exposure and development of certain types of cancers in the recently established Danish Twin Tattoo Cohort.

Health, Science, Cancer, Tattooing

82 points by achristmascarl 53 days ago | 53 comments

A protein from tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy (news.mit.edu)
Drawing inspiration from a tiny organism that can withstand huge amounts of radiation, researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the University of Iowa have developed a new strategy that may protect patients from this kind of damage.

Cancer, Radiation Therapy, Science, Biology

5 points by rbanffy 53 days ago | 1 comments

When Professor Bryant Lin got cancer, he taught a class about it (nytimes.com)
Dr. Bryant Lin, who teaches medicine at Stanford University, was given a terminal diagnosis. He wanted his students to understand the humanity at the core of medicine.

Cancer, Medicine, Education, Stanford University

89 points by danso 58 days ago | 20 comments

Water chlorination levels in US and EU likely increase cancer risk (pressreader.com)

Health, Cancer, Water Treatment, Public Health, Europe

14 points by oliverchan2024 66 days ago | 1 comments

Water chlorination levels in US and EU likely increase cancer risk (theguardian.com)
Chlorinating drinking water at levels common in the United States and European Union probably increases the risk of several cancers, a new analysis of recent research from across the globe finds.

Health, Cancer, Water Treatment, Public Health, Environmental Science

3 points by kawera 67 days ago | 1 comments

Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads (nature.com)
Researchers have developed a simple blood test to detect pancreatic cancer before it spreads to other sites in the body.

Cancer, Medical Research, Healthcare, Diagnosis

395 points by rbanffy 72 days ago | 236 comments

Cancer-fighting compound shows immense potential to eradicate HIV (news.stanford.edu)

Cancer, HIV, Medicine, Science, Research

3 points by nkzednan 73 days ago | 0 comments

Immunotherapy Extended President Jimmy Carter's Life (cancerresearch.org)
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, passed away on December 29, 2024, at the age of 100 in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. The former U.S. president had been in hospice care since February 2023 following declining health.

Immunotherapy, Cancer, Health, Politics

23 points by wwarner 88 days ago | 4 comments

Mitochondrial swap from cancer to immune cells thwarts anti-tumour defences (nature.com)
Immune cells can destroy cancer, but tumours often evade such responses. The bidirectional transfer of mitochondria between cancer and immune cells is a newly discovered mechanism that thwarts anticancer defences.

Cancer, Biology, Immunology, Science

5 points by gronky_ 89 days ago | 0 comments

Diet and cancer: What we know and what we don't (dietdoctor.com)
Humans have been attempting to link diet and health since the dawn of time, or at least the dawn of written records.

Health, Nutrition, Cancer, Science

6 points by cassianoleal 91 days ago | 0 comments

Scientists Say They've Discovered How Cancer Hijacks and Corrupts Immune Cells (singularityhub.com)
Cancer cells steal from and poison the cells tasked with fighting them off.

Cancer, Immunology, Biology, Science

5 points by Brajeshwar 91 days ago | 0 comments