Targeted radiotherapy for breast cancer offers good quality of life and fewer side effects
Quality of life for women treated with a more targeted radiotherapy treatment – called accelerated…
Monthly Archives: April, 2018
Discovery adds to evidence that some children are predisposed to develop leukaemia
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital researchers have made a discovery that expands the list of…
Landmark study links tumour evolution to prostate cancer severity
Findings from Canadian Prostate Cancer Genome Network (CPC-GENE) researchers and their collaborators, published today in Cell,…
Study may explain why some triple-negative breast cancers are resistant to chemotherapy
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive form of the disease accounting for 12 to…
Global ROS1 initiative: A patient-researcher collaboration targeting ROS1 cancer
Cancer patients have often organised support and informational groups around their disease types. Now a…
ESTRO 37: Elderly less likely to benefit from simultaneous radio chemotherapy for lung cancer
An analysis of elderly patients treated in a phase II trial of radiotherapy combined with…
Water dynamics indicate tumour status
How aggressive is a tumour? To measure the tumour status without taking tissue samples, Italian…
Pre-cancerous: warning sign or cause for panic?
Susan Woods, University of Adelaide; Hannah Brown, University of Adelaide, and Tamsin Lannagan, University of…
Skin cancer caught earlier by spouses, diagnosed more accurately by dermatologists
Two studies published in JAMA Dermatology report on the detection of early skin cancers in married couples,…
Preserving fertility during chemotherapy
Many chemotherapeutics act by damaging the DNA. Since cancer cells divide more often than most…