Exercise: a new medicine for cancer survivors
COSA 2016: New research presented at the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) and Australia…
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The secret life of an oncologist: witnessing the most painful and intimate moments of life
By Anonymous – The Guardian. It’s not all doom and gloom. The best part of…
Common virus triggers blood cancer
Scientists at the University of Sussex, UK, trying to uncover how the common Epstein-Barr virus…
New discovery paves way for pancreatic cancer treatment
Pancreatic cancer, the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths, is projected to be the second…
Personalised breast cancer programme launches in Cambridge, UK
A new personalised breast cancer programme which will map patients’ DNA and RNA to tailor…
Promising results for AGS-003 individualised immunotherapy in kidney cancer
Argos Therapeutics Inc., an immuno-oncology company focused on the development and commercialisation of individualised immunotherapies…
New study links teen obesity to endometrial cancer among women not using hormone therapy
While it is well established that obesity is closely linked to endometrial cancer risk, most…
Hazardous chemicals discovered in flavoured e-cigarette vapour
Building on more than 30 years of air quality research in some of the most…
Tiny barcodes provide huge advance in personalised cancer therapy
Using synthetic DNA sequences as the tiniest of barcodes, Technion researchers have developed a new…
Vitamin D level in blood at breast cancer diagnosis associated with survival
A new report published online by JAMA Oncology examined whether levels of a blood biomarker of Vitamin…