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UCLA researchers find strategy to improve prostate cancer therapies https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260803/UCLA-researchers-find-strategy-to-improve-prostate-cancer-therapies.aspx?utm_source=news_medical_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=prostate_cancer_newsletter_3_august_2026 UCLA researchers have identified a promising strategy to make a new class of targeted cancer therapies more effective against one of the deadliest forms of prostate cancer, potentially overcoming treatment resistance that has limited their success. Common heart risk calculators effectively predict certain types of cancerCommon heart risk calculators effectively predict certain types of cancer https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260721/Common-heart-risk-calculators-effectively-predict-certain-types-of-cancer.aspx?utm_source=news_medical_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=prostate_cancer_newsletter_3_august_2026 Risk calculators that doctors use to estimate a person's risk of a heart attack or stroke work about as well for predicting certain cancers, according to a new study by UCL (University College London) researchers. New Research Links CALB2 Gene to Mechanoresistance in Metastatic Prostate Cancer https://www.azolifesciences.com/news/20260724/New-Research-Links-CALB2-Gene-to-Mechanoresistance-in-Metastatic-Prostate-Cancer.aspx?utm_source=news_medical_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=prostate_cancer_newsletter_3_august_2026 When a cancer cell leaves the original tumor to spread to a new, far away location, it first has to survive what most cells cannot: periodic high force moments in the vessels and heart of up to 5,000 dynes per centimeter squared as it circulates throughout the body.