Announcing the launch of Breakthroughs Today, Cures Tomorrow, our 20th anniversary campaign!
It is common to feel sad, discouraged, or moody after a cancer diagnosis. You may be facing new limits on what you can do and feel anxious about treatment outcomes and the future. It may be hard to adapt to a new reality and to cope with the changes that come with the diagnosis and the demands of treatment.
Imagine being able to program your immune system to launch one million minuscule heat-seeking missiles, whose sole purpose is to find and kill cancer cells. This is the basic premise behind an emerging form of immunotherapy, called CAR T-cell therapy, which genetically modifies an individual’s immune system to find, bind to, and kill cancer cells.
This young PNET patient knew something was wrong, but his doctor didn’t believe him. Since this PNET patient was also an oncologist, he asserted the need for further testing to clarify the diagnosis. In a guest blog Mark Lewis, MD, shares insights on listening to your body and getting doctors to listen to you.
It can be difficult to biopsy tissue from pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) for genomic profiling. To help create safe and non-invasive tests for genomic mutations before, during, and after treatment in PNET patients, NETRF is funding researchers that are testing a novel alternative known as a “liquid biopsy.”
Over the summer, NETRF issued a request for applications (RFA) to the international research community—help us to cure NETs with transformative ideas for scientific and clinical research. We are pleased to report that we are now evaluating a record number of submissions from researchers who want to focus their efforts on the search for NET cures.
Clinical trials are research studies that test how well new drugs, devices, or medical approaches work in people. Through clinical trials, doctors find new ways
The 7th annual memorial golf tournament on behalf of Jacob Carwile took place on a hot July day at the Hidden Valley Golf & Country Club, Livingston, Tennessee. Like every year, Earl Carwile set out early to place sponsorship signs at every tee before the first round of golfers headed out onto the nine-hole course for the first of two tee times.
What, when, and how you eat can help to improve your response to cancer treatment and help ease burdensome symptoms and side effects. According to University of California, San Francisco, Dietitian Greta Macaire, MA, RD, CSO, consuming the proper nutrients can mean fewer complications, faster recovery, and improved strength and energy.
Sharon Gorski, PhD, Genome Sciences Centre, Canada, has recently been awarded a two-year Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation (NETRF)–American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) grant to use a new method of proteogenomic analysis on pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs).
Laura Banaszynski, Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – Laura Banaszynski, PhD, has always been passionate about science. After training as a chemical biologist, her innate curiosity pushed her to explore the mysteries of cells as a basic researcher.