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Shorter herceptin breast cancer treatment may produce better results
Breast cancer patients who receive the drug herceptin for nine weeks as part of their…
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Cancer Council NSW awards nearly $6million to ground-breaking cancer research
15 winning project grants announced at 2017 Research Awards Cancer Council NSW has awarded nearly…
Increasing expression of chemical cytokine ‘LIGHT’ in mice with colon cancer activated immune system’s natural cancer-killing T-cells
Anti-tumour immune therapy for colon cancer works in mice A chemical found in tumours may…
Poor diet in youth associated with increased risk for premenopausal breast cancer
Women who consumed a diet as adolescents or young adults associated with chronic inflammation had…
PI3K/mTOR inhibitors may be effective against some uterine sarcomas
The protein P-S6S240 may serve as an indicator of poor prognosis for patients with a…
Statins do not benefit patients with lung cancer
Cholesterol-lowering drugs used alongside chemotherapy have no effect on treatment outcomes for lung cancer patients,…
Tumour protein could hold key to pancreatic cancer survival
A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is often a death sentence because current chemotherapies have little…
Regular CA125 testing may help detect ovarian cancer in high-risk women
The combined results of two ovarian cancer screening trials suggest that a personalised strategy involving…
Colorectal cancer rates have risen dramatically in Gen X and millennials
A new study finds that compared to people born around 1950, when colorectal cancer risk…
Biomarker for lung cancer detected in the nasal passages of smokers
A new nasal test may allow patients suspected of having lung cancer to undergo a…