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April 8, 2020

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As coronavirus strains hospitals, cancer patients face treatment delays, uncertainty

NPR
As hospitals across the country are forced to delay or cancel certain medical procedures in response to the surge in patients with COVID-19, those hard choices are disrupting care for some people with serious illnesses. The federal government has encouraged health centers to delay non-essential surgeries while weighing the severity of the patient's condition and the availability of personal protective equipment, beds and staffing at hospitals. READ MORE

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National Cytotechnology Day is right around the corner and fortunately there’s still time to get your t-shirt. But you have to hurry! Orders must be placed by Friday, April 10^th.

This year’s winning design submission was:

"THROWING AWAY MALIGNANT CELLS"

by Yelemis De La Cruz Ortiz, Carolina, Puerto Rico

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INDUSTRY NEWS

Breastfeeding tied to lower ovarian cancer risk

MedPage Today
Breastfeeding for any duration was linked with a reduced risk of borderline and invasive ovarian tumors, a retrospective study indicated. In a pooled analysis of nearly 24,000 women, breastfeeding at any point was significantly associated with risk reductions of 28% for borderline tumors and 24% for invasive ovarian cancers (including high-grade serous, endometrioid and clear cell tumors), reported Naoko Sasamoto, MD, MPH, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and colleagues. READ MORE

Microbiome may hold key to identifying HPV-infected women at risk for pre-cancer

Science Daily
Gardnerella bacteria in the cervicovaginal microbiome may serve as a biomarker to identify women infected with human papillomavirus (HPV) who are at risk for progression to precancer, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Robert Burk and Mykhaylo Usyk of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and colleagues. According to the authors, the findings could lead to therapeutic strategies that manipulate the microbiome to prevent disease progression. READ MORE

Vaccine combo 'provocative' as cervical cancer treatment

MedPage Today
Administration of a therapeutic vaccine during chemotherapy led to tumor regression in a substantial proportion of patients with advanced human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive cervical cancer, a preliminary clinical trial showed. The HPV16-targeted vaccine plus carboplatin-paclitaxel chemotherapy produced tumor regression in 31 of 72 patients. Chemotherapy-induced depletion of myeloid suppressive cells was associated with spontaneous HPV-specific immunity in a third of tested patients. Patients had T-cell responses across all vaccine doses evaluated. READ MORE

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New study suggests weight gain may reduce breast cancer risk

MedicalXpress
A recent study published in the International Journal of Cancer, has found that women who gain weight from early adulthood are at a reduced risk of developing breast cancer before they reach menopause. READ MORE

Hereditary gene defect found to be most common cause of childhood brain cancer yet identified

GEN
There may be a hereditary basis to 40% of cases of a subtype of the childhood brain cancer medulloblastoma, according to the results of a genetic study by international researchers. Led by teams at the Hopp Children’s Cancer Center (KiTZ), and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), the research showed about 14% of children with a form of medulloblastoma known as Sonic Hedgehog (MBSHH) carried loss of function (LOF) variants in the elongator complex protein 1 (ELP1) gene, which plays a key role in this tumor type by destabilizing the production and breakdown of proteins. READ MORE

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