Virginia Tech veterinary neurologist helps establish shared ‘life history’ of brain cancer in dogs, people
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Humans and dogs share many aspects of their lives: food, homes, and a deep bond of mutual affection.
Search Results for cancer
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Signs of pancreatic cancer: When to see a doctor?
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The pancreas is one of the organs in the digestive system. It rests behind the stomach and regulates blood sugar levels by secreting the hormones insulin, glucagon, somatostatin, and pancreatic polypeptide.
Inspired by her father, student aims to find cure for pancreatic cancer
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One mission drives Jessica Gannon. She is focused on finding a cure for pancreatic cancer.
UVA Health News: Diet, gut microbes affect cancer treatment outcomes, research reveals
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What we eat can affect the outcome of chemotherapy – and likely many other medical treatments – because of ripple effects that begin in our gut, new research from the University of Virginia suggests.
Sophisticated new scanner to aid cancer research, treatment for pets, people
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Cancer research and treatment for the region’s pets and people got a boost when a new computed tomography scanner was delivered to the Health Sciences and Technology Campus in Roanoke.
How to deal with cancer, fear, anxiety during COVID-19
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Being a cancer patient and dealing with different treatments is stressful. The current COVID-19 crisis only adds to the anxiety of people who are dealing with cancer diagnosis which makes them feel overwhelmed.
UVA developing new tools to battle neurological diseases, cancer, stroke
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UVA researchers hope a new approach could revolutionize treatment for conditions from Alzheimer’s to epilepsy to brain tumors.
UVA improving cancer outcomes by examining patients’ genes
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By mining a vast trove of genetic data, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine are enhancing doctors’ ability to treat cancer, predict patient outcomes and determine which treatments will work best for individual patients.
iTHRIV funding research into depression, rotator cuffs, cancer
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The integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV) has awarded $200,000 in pilot funding to multi-institutional research projects
Brain tumor discovery at UVA may unlock new cancer treatments
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Researchers at UVA have determined that a rare childhood cancer, medulloblastoma, forms an unexpectedly intricate network to drive its growth.
