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Pushing screening of ovarian and endometrial cancers one step further
March 21st, 2018 Releases Montreal — A team from the Research Institute of McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal has joined forces with researchers at Johns Hopkins to bring screening and early detection of ovarian and uterine cancers one …
Genetics and Oncology come together to offer faster genetic testing to ovarian cancer patients
November 19th, 2018 Articles In 2017, the Society of Gynecologic Oncology of Canada issued new recommendations for genetic testing of women diagnosed with High Grade Serous Ovarian cancer (HGSOC) – the most common type of ovarian cancer cases and the one …
How does cancer spread?
December 10th, 2018 Releases Research Montreal - How does cancer spread? While studying human brain tumour cells, a team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) found some answers to this crucial, yet so …
Québec Science honours a research team at the MUHC
January 5th, 2019 Releases Recent work by MUHC gyneco-oncologists Dr. Lucy Gilbert, Xing Zeng and Kris Jardon, along with American researchers, has been hailed as one of Québec Science 's top ten discoveries of the year 2018! Each year, this scientific …
RI-MUHC researchers among recipients of a $34M grant to fight cancer
January 23rd, 2019 Releases Researchers from McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal are part of a multinational team led by the University of California, San …
A hide-out for viruses in the testicles
January 25th, 2019 Releases It all began five years ago at the Royal Victoria Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) with one of Dr. Jean-Pierre Routy’s HIV patients. L to R: Stéphane Isnard (Postdoctoral fellow), Franck Dupuy (Research …
Using CrossFit to stick it to Cancer
February 4th, 2019 Articles PHOTO : Carlo Pagano Ben, who is a father to two young children, was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in the spring of 2016. Since then, the 42-year-old has found himself bedridden and hospitalized from chemotherapy treatments, …
Shared genetic marker offers new promise in targeting specific ovarian and lung cancers
February 4th, 2019 Releases Two new papers, published simultaneously in Nature Communications and led by researchers at McGill University and at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), offer promise that a drug currently …
The unanticipated early origins of childhood brain cancer
May 1st, 2019 Releases Research Brain tumours are the leading cause of non-accidental death in children in Canada, but little is known about when these tumours form or how they develop. Researchers from SickKids, the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research …
Unprecedented Canada-wide movement to improve pediatric cancer treatment
November 23rd, 2017 Releases Montreal – In Canada, cancer remains the leading cause of illness-related death in children. In an effort to accelerate research breakthroughs and ensure a faster path to a cure for children living with resistant, recurrent …