Researchers have made a hydrogel that, when injected near tumors in mice, recruits drugs to shrink the tumor with fewer side effects

The case report comes 10 years after the first such case, known as the "Berlin Patient"

Absorbent polymer sops up chemotherapy drugs from the bloodstream after treatment

With a new method, surgeons would remove a tumor, then implant microparticles that attack the remaining cancer cells

A 21-gene test performed on tumors could enable most patients with the most common type of early breast cancer to safely forgo chemotherapy

Daniela Salvemini, PhD, professor of pharmacology and physiology at SLU, studies pain pathways, the series of interactions between molecular-level components that lead to pain in the body

Targeting pathway could increase potency of some current drugs

Findings could help predict which patients will suffer side effects and prevent complications in susceptible patients

In the future, scientists want to further investigate the molecules and examine their capacity as predictive biomarkers of taxane-based radiochemotherapy

Findings suggest that ribosomal DNA copy number could be used to predict which cancers will be sensitive to DNA-damaging chemotherapeutics