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3-D imaging of collagen may become vital tool for precision cancer treatment
For an illness like cancer, doctors in search of definitive diagnosis often turn to computed tomography (CT) scans based on reconstructing a three-dimensional image of an organ from multiple...
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Improved capture of cancer cells in blood could help track disease
Tumor cells circulating throughout the body in blood vessels have long been feared as harbingers of metastasizing cancer — even though most free-floating cancer cells will not go on to establish a new...
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Long-term cancer survivor beats odds, prompts study
You’ve heard of the face that launched a thousand ships? Margaret “Peg” Geisler, 82, is the case that launched an international search for “extreme survivors” of metastatic breast cancer. “Each time I...
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The Ride gets research into gear
The Ride sends hundreds of bicyclists across eastern Dane County to raise money for cancer research on the UW–Madison campus. All images: Focal Flame Photography The Ride is a signature cycling event...
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Nanoparticles improve tumor treatment in mice
In the treatment of cancer, chemotherapy is a cleaver, not a scalpel. By attacking rapidly dividing cells, chemotherapy effectively fights tumors, but it also ravages healthy cells in the gut, bone...
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Exploring the matrix to uncover hidden drivers of ovarian cancer
To clump together and form living tissue, cells secrete molecules that create structure. But that structure isn’t always healthy, and understanding how it goes bad could reveal more about the way...
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UW team finds key to common cancer pathway in discovery that could unlock new...
Scientists have long known that the protein p53, when mutated, is a critical factor in the onset of many different kinds of cancer. In its unmutated form, however, it is known to protect against...
View ArticlePersonalized in vitro model enables drug screening for kidney cancer
One way to treat the most common type of kidney cancer is to use anti-angiogenic drugs to cut off the blood supply to the tumors, but patients respond differently to the drugs, and choosing the wrong...
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Blood-based screen for colon cancer shows promise
If caught early, nearly all cases of colon cancer are curable. Though this should make screening tests straightforward, colon cancer screening suffers from a paradoxical combination of low compliance...
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Researchers probe cell division defects to gain insight into cancer
From bugs to plants to animals, for all living things to grow they must create more cells. To do so, each existing cell, whether in an embryo or an adult, receives cues to copy its chromosomes — large...
View ArticleScout’s story: UW veterinary medicine featured in Super Bowl commercial
As Super Bowl LIV airs Sunday, Feb. 2, Scout will appear in a WeatherTech advertisement alongside members of the School of Veterinary Medicine’s faculty and staff who have been part of the 7-year-old...
View ArticleScout, UW star in Super Bowl ad
When clinicians at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine began caring for Scout in July 2019, they had no idea they would soon inspire, and appear in, a Super Bowl commercial. But...
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‘Lucky Dog’ Scout and UW School of Veterinary Medicine star in WeatherTech...
The ad follows Scout’s journey as a cancer survivor, celebrates the work being done at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine, and encourages viewers to donate to the school’s cancer research efforts....
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Cheap nanoparticles stimulate immune response to cancer in the lab
University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers have developed nanoparticles that, in the lab, can activate immune responses to cancer cells. If they are shown to work as well in the body as they do in the...
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Scout’s Super Bowl story is a viral hit
In recent years, Badgers like Russell Wilson and James White have shined on the world’s biggest stage. This year, a 7-year-old Golden Retriever named Scout and UW’s School of Veterinary Medicine stole...
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V. Craig Jordan, Michael G. Moore to receive honorary degrees from UW–Madison
A groundbreaking cancer researcher and a pioneer in the field of contemporary distance education will be awarded honorary doctoral degrees during spring commencement ceremonies at the University of...
View ArticleUW Health March 19 Daily Update: Caring for Cancer Patients
The University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center continues to care for cancer patients by using telehealth technology, expanding screening, and extending in-home care options to address the unique...
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A new way to help the immune system fight back against cancer
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health are breaking new ground to make cancer cells more susceptible to attack by the body’s own immune system. Working in mice,...
View ArticleStudy led by UW doctor finds analyzing DNA in urine could help detect cancer
Currently, cancers are detected using more invasive methods. Urinalysis has long been used to manage many diseases and disorders, but not cancer.
View ArticleCombining low-dose radiotherapy with immunotherapy eradicates metastatic...
More doesn’t necessarily mean better — including in cancer treatment. University of Wisconsin–Madison and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists report today in the journal Science...
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