Boys should also get the HPV vaccine to protect themselves from oral and genital cancers
Nham Tran, University of Technology Sydney and Samantha Khoury, University of Technology Sydney The human…
Monthly Archives: October, 2016
Women should be told about their breast density when they have a mammogram
Kara Britt, Monash University; Honor Joy Hugo, Queensland University of Technology; Jennifer Stone, University of…
Immune-boosting gut microbes can help chemotherapy drugs
Certain microbes in the gut can help improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs, according to…
Cancer cells have Alzheimer’s disease, too
A study published today by researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of…
Working night shifts unlikely to increase breast cancer risk
New research has found that working night shifts has little or no effect on a woman’s…
‘Game-changing’ immunotherapy doubles head and neck cancer survival
An immunotherapy drug has been hailed as a potential ‘game changer’ after being found to…
New “beacon” method detects cancer recurrence
By Caleb Radford – The Lead SA. A new detection method for tumour recurrence in bowel…
ESMO 2016: Significant survival gains from neoadjuvant chemo for high-risk soft tissue sarcoma
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy with an anthracycline plus ifosfamide was associated with significant survival gains in patients…
Bone marrow inflammation predicts leukaemia risk
Cancer is generally thought to arise from genetic damage within individual cells, but recent evidence…
Diesel fumes at work cause 130 lung cancer cases every year
Cancer Council is calling for greater cancer awareness in the workplace, following new estimates that…