18th AGITG Annual Scientific Meeting – Looking Back, Moving Forward
This year marked the 25th anniversary of the Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group (AGITG) conducting and…
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ESMO 2016: Niraparib significantly improves outcome of ovarian cancer patients in landmark trial
The PARP inhibitor niraparib significantly improves the outcome of platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer, according to…
ESMO 2016: Financial difficulties linked to worse outcomes from cancer treatment
Financial difficulties can significantly impact a cancer patient’s quality of life during treatment and may…
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…
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…