Posts by: Marisa Wexler, MS

Marisa Wexler, MS

Marisa holds an MS in Cellular and Molecular Pathology from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied novel genetic drivers of ovarian cancer. She specializes in cancer biology, immunology, and genetics. Marisa began working with BioNews in 2018, and has written about science and health for SelfHacked and the Genetics Society of America. She also writes/composes musicals and coaches the University of Pittsburgh fencing club.

December 11, 2019

Lower Prostate Cancer Risk in Diabetics Likely Due to Fewer Biopsies, Not Medications, Study Says

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Common treatments for diabetes don’t appear to mask or reduce levels of a prostate cancer marker in the blood. Rather, the lower rates of prostate cancer detected in men ... Read more

November 7, 2019November 11, 2019

Use of Assisted Reproduction Techniques Linked to Increased Prostate Cancer Risk, Study Suggests

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Men who father children through assisted reproduction techniques, either in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), may be at a higher risk of developing prostate cancer, a ... Read more

November 6, 2019

$1.8M NIH Award to Support Work into Robotic System Able to Better Detect Prostate Cancer

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Haichong Zhang, an assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, has been given a Director’s Early Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support his work in designing ... Read more

October 28, 2019

Targeted Radiation (SBRT) Can Control Prostate Cancer That Has Spread Slightly, Trial Results Suggest

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Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) — a form of targeted, high-dose radiation therapy — significantly extends the time without detectable disease progression when given to prostate cancer patients with ... Read more

October 10, 2019

$35M Gift from Benioffs to Support Prostate Cancer Research Initiative at UCSF

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A $35 million gift from Marc and Lynne Benioff will support a new initiative at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) aimed at finding personalized treatments for prostate ... Read more

September 30, 2019

Focal Therapy, AuroLase, Shows Good Safety and Potential Effectiveness in Pilot Clinical Trial

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Nanospectra Biosciences‘ AuroLase Therapy, a focal therapy for prostate cancer that uses gold-silica nanoparticles, showed a good safety profile and evidence of successfully eliminating the cancer in a pilot clinical ... Read more

September 18, 2019

Study Describes New Imaging Technique for Detecting Prostate Cancer

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A new imaging technique that combines ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging of the prostate delivers detailed information about the prostate’s anatomy and cancer location, identifying some cancers that would be ... Read more

August 5, 2019

Xtandi Delays Disease Worsening in Metastatic Hormone-sensitive Prostate Cancer, Study Says

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Adding Xtandi (enzalutamide) to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) significantly delays disease progression or death in men with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC), regardless of how spread the disease is, a Phase ... Read more

July 18, 2019

Liquid Biopsy Could Help Identify Aggressive Prostate Cancers, Study Says

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A non-invasive test that examines microRNAs — small RNA molecules — in urine may be used to identify aggressive prostate cancers with great accuracy, potentially avoiding unnecessary treatments for ... Read more

June 26, 2019

Report Identifies Proteins That Drive Spread in Castration-resistant PC

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Inhibiting the protein BRD4 can stop the migration of castration-resistant prostate cancer cells, regardless of the mechanism causing resistance to treatment, new research has shown. This suggests that BRD4 ... Read more

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