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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 22-Dec-2025 19:11 ET (23-Dec-2025 00:11 GMT/UTC)

MD Anderson’s top nurses receive The Brown Foundation Award for Excellence in Oncology Nursing

University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Grant and Award Announcement

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center yesterday honored Kimberly Vanderhorst, MSN, RN, CAPA, and Terri Lynn Dunn, DNP, APRN, WHNP-BC, CPHQ, with the 2025 Brown Foundation Award for Excellence in Oncology Nursing. As the institution’s highest nursing honor, this award celebrates outstanding achievements in oncology nursing, including exceptional patient care and a commitment to excellence in clinical practice.

Leading the way in targeted cancer treatment

University of Missouri-Columbia
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the quest for more targeted lung cancer treatments, a researcher at the University of Missouri thinks the solution may lie in tiny bubble-shaped packages that cells use to talk to each other.

Journal: Molecular Therapy Oncology

Dicer: Life's ancient repair tool

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

CSHL Professor & HHMI Investigator Rob Martienssen has found that both the Dicer protein and RNase H enzyme are needed to fully resolve conflicts between DNA transcription and replication. The discovery could have significant implications for how we think about cancer and the origins of life.

Journal: Molecular Cell
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Institut Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Ligue Contre le Cancer

UT Health San Antonio recognized among nation’s top 100 oncology programs

The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center
Business Announcement

UT Health San Antonio’s Mays Cancer Center has been named among the nation’s leading hospitals and health systems for excellence in oncology programs, according to Becker’s Hospital Review.

AI tool identifies women at high risk of interval breast cancer

Radiological Society of North America
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a study of more than 100,000 screening mammograms, researchers demonstrated the potential of an AI tool to help identify women at higher risk of developing interval breast cancers, breast cancer that is diagnosed between regular screening mammograms.

Journal: Radiology

Global initiative to demonstrate operational excellence in Nigeria for metastatic colorectal cancer patients

Hiltzik Strategies
Business Announcement

Today, the Innovative Cancer Medicines (ICM) initiative announced the enrollment of the first Nigerian patient in a pioneering demonstration project to provide an immunotherapy drug used to treat cancer. The goal of the initiative is to develop an approach that explores sustainable and effective administration of innovative immuno-oncology therapies in low- and middle-income countries.

Gene–environment interaction of GWAS loci and reproductive history in uterine fibroid risk

Xia & He Publishing Inc.
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Uterine fibroids (UFs) are common hormone-dependent tumors with a complex etiology involving both genetic and environmental factors. This study aimed to investigate, for the first time, the associations between loci from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and environmental risk factors in UF development, with a particular focus on gene–environment interactions.

Journal: Gene Expression

Missing nutrient in breast milk may explain health challenges in children of women with HIV

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new UCLA study reveals that breast milk from women living with HIV contains significantly lower levels of tryptophan, an essential amino acid likely important for infant immune function, growth, and brain development. This discovery may help explain why children born to women living with HIV experience higher rates of illness and developmental challenges, even when the children themselves are not infected with the virus.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Custom-designed receptors boost cancer-fighting T cells

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at EPFL and UNIL-CHUV have developed a computational method to create synthetic receptors that help engineered T cells respond more effectively to tumors.

Journal: Nature Biomedical Engineering
Funder: Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for Foreign Scholars, Emma Muschamp Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Swiss Cancer Research Foundation, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Stiftung für Krebsbekämpfung, Blood Cancer United, University of Lausanne (UNIL)

AAAS announces addition of Cancer Communications to Science Partner Journal Program

Science Partner Journals
Business Announcement

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is pleased to announce its partnership with Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center (SYSUCC) to publish Cancer Communications as a Science Partner Journal.

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