Ian Demsky

Demsky was a previous Health Lab contributor and member of the public relations team.

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Scientists ‘Farm’ Natural Killer Cells in Novel Cancer Fighting Approach
Engineers and oncologists teamed to develop a microfluidic chip capable of capturing the body’s natural killer immune cells to harvest their cancer-killing exosomes.
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Work, Humor and Family Help Stage 4 Cancer Patient Thrive
Facing a challenging diagnosis of metastatic urologic cancer, one of the state’s top communications professionals leans into her job, laughter and love.
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Key Pathway for Activated T-cells Might Be Targeted to Fight GVHD
A new understanding of intracellular pathways activated as T cells start to mount an immune response offers clues against graft-versus-host disease, a serious complication of bone marrow transplantation.
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New Treatment Approach for a Common Glioma Subtype Shows Promise in Animal Models
A combination approach, which included metabolic reprogramming and immunotherapy, led to complete tumor regression in 60% of study mice.
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Top 10 Cancer Research Stories of 2020
Throughout the pandemic, researchers have continued to push the boundaries of cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
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A Cure for the Medicine: Helping Patients with Gynecologic Cancer Manage Treatment Side Effects
Estrogen-lowering aromatase inhibitors are frequently prescribed to women with ovarian and uterine cancers. New research sheds light on how side effects impact these patients.
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Drug Screen in 3-D Cell Culture Identifies Promising Lead Against Bladder Cancer Subtype
Increasingly, scientists like those at the Rogel Cancer Center are using 3-D cell cultures to more closely model cancer cells in the body.
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New Map of the Immune Landscape in Pancreatic Cancer Could Guide Future Personalized Immunotherapy Treatments
The analysis highlights the diversity of immune response in pancreatic cancer, and points toward the need for treatments tailored to individual patients.
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Toward a New Staging System for Prostate Cancer, and Why it Matters
The U-M-led development and validation of a staging system for non-metastatic prostate cancer could help doctors and patients assess treatment options, as well as improve clinical trials. 
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Tumor DNA in Spinal Fluid Could Help Doctors Better Monitor Childhood Brain Cancer
Researchers have demonstrated that a new liquid biopsy approach overcomes traditional barriers to quickly and efficiently diagnose and monitor high-grade gliomas.
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Axitinib Improves Survival for Patients with Incurable Head and Neck Cancer
This phase 2 trial also identified a subset of patients with specific mutations who may see the most benefit from the drug.
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Women with Inflammatory Breast Cancer Are Living Longer, But the Gap Between White and Black Patients Persists
A U-M Rogel Cancer study provides an updated, more comprehensive look at trends for this rare, aggressive form of breast cancer over the last four decades.
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Scientists Train Computers to Recognize Which Early Stage Breast Cancers Will Spread
The new approach could help doctors to separate aggressive stage 0 breast cancer from non-aggressive forms, sparing some women unnecessary mastectomies.
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Hail Fellows, Well Met!
Though they often receive little fanfare, postdocs are critical to the success of the Rogel Cancer Center’s research programs.
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Making Strides Against Childhood Brain Cancers
A roundup of several recent Michigan Medicine discoveries that are shedding new light on pediatric brain cancers and helping to improve treatment options.
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