Pacemakers can improve heart function in patients with chemotherapy-induced heart disease

BOSTON – With the advent of new therapies, cancer patients are surviving longer than ever before — but the incidence of side-effect chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy (CHIC), or weakness of the heart muscle, is increasing. Research published in JAMA has shown that treating CHIC with commercially available cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) delivered through a surgically implanted defibrillator…

International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer issues policy statement on e-cigs

DENVER — (November 13, 2019)–The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer today issued a new policy statement that strongly discourages the use of electronic cigarettes by youth or by adults who are not currently smoking. The IASLC is the world’s largest multidisciplinary lung cancer organization and the new policy statement coincides with Lung…

Precisely poking cells en masse to cure cancer

What if you could cure cancer by re-engineering patients’ cells to better target and destroy their own tumors? With the advent of powerful new cellular engineering technologies, this is no longer the stuff of science fiction. In the past few years, these technologies have enabled the development of revolutionary engineered cell therapies for treating cancer,…