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Back to SearchPeople with dementia but no diagnosis can have more problematic hospitalizations, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Older people with undiagnosed dementia who get hospitalized experience worse outcomes than other groups of older adults who require hospitalization, a study by Halima Amjad, a dementia and geriatrics…
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Undiagnosed dementia can be risky, especially when someone is hospitalized, Elizabeth Tracey reports
People who have dementia frequently aren’t diagnosed, and when such a person is hospitalized they are at much higher risk for poorer outcomes. That’s the focus of research by Halima Amjad, a geriatri…
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Can peripheral blood sampling be combined with radiation therapy for cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Cancers continue to change, or mutate, as time goes on, often acquiring the ability to outmaneuver treatments. Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, has used repeated blood sampli…
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A combination of strategies help determine best cancer treatment strategies, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Genetics are foundational to much of cancer treatment, and now both the environment surrounding the tumor as well as analysis of cancer cells shed into the blood may also be used to inform treatment …
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How does radiation benefit the body’s response to cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Radiation of a primary tumor can activate immune cells around distant metastases, a study by Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Anagnostou says the me…
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Radiation is emerging as an important tool in helping improve immune response in cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports
When cancer develops resistance to immunotherapy, radiation may help. That’s according to a study by cancer researcher Valsamo Anagnostou at Johns Hopkins. Anagnostou: We’re administering radiation a…
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Can radiation affect distant metastasis? Elizabeth Tracey reports
If someone with cancer has initially responded to immunotherapy but then develops metastasis, radiation of the primary tumor may help treat those distant sites, research by Valsamo Anagnostou, a canc…
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Can radiation improve the success of immunotherapies to treat cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Immunotherapies have proven very successful in the treatment of different types of cancer, but over time it is common for resistance to develop. Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopki…
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What does the area around a tumor tell us about response to treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports
How tumors respond to treatment has to do with both their internal and external environments, research by Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Anagnosto…
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Assessing individual cancer characteristics is needed to determine resistance to new types of therapies, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Immunotherapies hold enormous promise for treating cancers of various types, but the bad news is that while many patients may initially respond many will also become resistant. Valsamo Anagnostou, a …
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