The Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering at Tohoku University has created a lymphatic drug delivery system (LDDS) that allows anticancer medications to be administered directly into metastatic LNs. Rapid therapy is essential because lymph node (LN) metastases in cancer patients is an indication that things are becoming worse. A research team from Tohoku University’s Graduate […]
Breast implants can lead to breast cancer, according to FDA new study
Breast implants have been linked to more forms of cancer, according to a warning issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Friday. The FDA has previously warned women of breast implants’ association with breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL), however, these reports suggest implants may be linked to squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) and various lymphomas […]
For those with Hodgkin lymphoma, brentuximab vedotin may increase overall survival
The study’s findings were presented by Stephen Ansell, M.D., Ph.D., at the ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago in 2022 and were later printed in the New England Journal of Medicine. Hodgkin’s lymphoma is a type of cancer that affects the lymphatic system, which is part of the body’s germ-fighting immune system. The white blood cells […]
