After receiving acupuncture treatment three days a week during the course of radiation treatment, head and neck cancer patients experienced less dry mouth, according to study results from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights showcases the latest breakthroughs in cancer care, research and prevention. These advances are made possible through seamless collaboration between MD Anderson’s world-leading clinicians and scientists, bringing discoveries from the lab to the clinic and back. Recent developments at MD Anderson offer insights into biomarkers that predict immunotherapy responses, a possible treatment strategy for patients with LKB1-deficient cancers, therapeutic targets to prevent acute myeloid leukemia (AML) progression in patients with p53 mutations, a novel drug-delivery system to cross the blood-brain barrier, the use of acupuncture to manage radiation-induced dry mouth, targets for improving severe side effects from immunotherapy, a faster sequencing method for detecting somatic mutations, an approach to boost cervical cancer screening rates among Black and Hispanic women in Texas, and an automated method for integrating cross-platform data for patients with rectal cancer.