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Cancer Medical Science Department / Cancer and Aging Biology Lab (Miyagi Cancer Center)
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A lab that searches for new therapeutic targets for rare cancers.
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Focusing on differences in the characteristics of cancer cells
The Cancer and Aging Biology lab, based in the Division of Cancer Stem Cell Research at the Miyagi Cancer Center Research Institute, searches for new therapeutic targets for rare cancers such as head and neck cancer and bile duct cancer.
Even the cancer of a single patient is made up of cancer cells with different characteristics, such as being resistant to anticancer drugs or radiation, proliferating quickly, or metastasizing easily.
The lab aims to clarify which cancer cells should be targeted to achieve more effective treatment.
This research field is a cooperative department of the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, and the head of the Division of Cancer Stem Cell Research serves as its Professor.
Key terms
- Rare cancer
- A type of cancer with few patients. This lab focuses on cancers such as head and neck cancer and bile duct cancer
- Therapeutic target
- A molecule or property in cancer cells that a drug or other treatment aims at. Once one is found, treatments aimed at it can be considered
- Cooperative department
- A department that a university establishes in cooperation with an outside research institution. Here, it is run in cooperation with the Miyagi Cancer Center Research Institute
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The characteristics of cancer cells differ from patient to patient, and even within a single patient. The lab seeks to clarify which cancer cells should be targeted to achieve more effective treatment.
*Illustrative imageRecreating and studying each patient's cancer
The lab receives surgically removed cancer tissue that would otherwise be discarded and recreates the patient's cancer in the laboratory. Using the valuable cancer cell samples obtained this way, it carries out research toward effective treatment.
*Illustrative imageElucidating the pathology of rare cancers
Drugs that work only on certain cancers, but work very well in the patients they do help, are now being developed. The lab looks not only at common cancers but also at rare cancers, and aims to clarify their pathology one by one.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members consist of faculty members, researchers, technical staff, PhD students, project researchers, and joint researchers and collaborators.
- ProfessorNaoki Asano
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- Top image: “Sugar chemistry room- central cancer research laboratory” Unknown photographer / Public domain (cropped)
- Recreating and studying each patient's cancer: “Petri Dish or Culture Plate containing agar medium used for stool culture” Frankincense Diala / CC0 (cropped)
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