Tag: Radiation therapy

  • Cancer cells can change their size to survive drugs, research reveals

    Cancer cells can change their size to survive drugs, research reveals

    Researchers believe that smaller cells may be more vulnerable to DNA-damaging agents such as chemotherapy combined with targeted drugs, while larger cancer cells may respond better to immunotherapy. The study was published in the journal Science Advances. It combined innovative high-performance image analysis with the study of DNA and proteins to study the size control…

  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal judge in the US Supreme Court, has died at the age of 87. She died on Friday at her home in Washington, as a result of pancreatic cancer. “Our nation has lost a lawyer of historical proportions. We in the Supreme Court have lost a well-liked colleague. Today we mourn,…