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If You Have Cancer, Will Your Children Get Cancer?

If you have cancer, will your children get cancer too? Cancer genetics experts Katherine Nathanson, MD, and David Lieberman, MS, CGC, discuss the role of genetics and cancer. 

Macrophages and Tumor Relapse

Tumor relapse after chemotherapy-induced regression is a major clinical problem, because it often involves inoperable metastatic disease. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) are known to limit the cytotoxic effects of chemotherapy in preclinical models ...

ADAPT, a novel scaffold protein-based probe for radionuclide imaging of molecular targets that are expressed in disseminated cancers.

Small engineered scaffold proteins have attracted attention as probes for radionuclide-based molecular imaging. One class of these imaging probes, termed ABD-Derived Affinity ProTeins (ADAPT), have been created using the albumin-binding domain (ABD) of...

Glioblastomas require integrin {alpha}v{beta}3/PAK4 signaling to escape senescence

Integrin αvβ3 has been implicated as a driver of aggressive and metastatic disease, and is upregulated during glioblastoma progression. Here we demonstrate that integrin αvβ3 allows glioblastoma cells to counteract senescence through a novel tissue...

The estrogen receptor cofactor SPEN functions as a tumor suppressor and candidate biomarker of drug responsiveness in hormone-dependent breast cancers.

The treatment of breast cancer has benefitted tremendously from the generation of estrogen receptor alpha (ERα)-targeted therapies, but disease relapse continues to pose a challenge due to intrinsic or acquired drug resistance. In an effort to delinea...