New insight into most common type of infant leukaemia
Peter Mac researchers have made an important advance in our understanding of the most common…
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The long read: The cancer drugs in your bathroom cabinet
By Linda Geddes – The Guardian. Researchers have had promising results treating tumours with everyday medicines.…
Landmark study shows Acute Myeloid Leukaemia is at least 11 different diseases
Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their international collaborators have shown that Acute…
Screening strategy may predict lethal prostate cancer later in life
Prostate cancer screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has been shown to reduce death and the…
Radiation and vaccination can magnify effects of immunotherapy
By combining local radiation therapy and anti-cancer vaccines with checkpoint inhibitors, researchers from the University…
Molecular imaging of neuroendocrine tumours optimises radiotherapy dose
Aggressive neuroendocrine cancer is something of a dark horse—a rare, elusive and persevering force linked…
Young cancer survivors are more likely to smoke than people without cancer history
Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have found that cancer survivors…
Middle aged more likely to be diagnosed with advanced lung cancer
Younger patients – aged 50 to 64 – are more likely to be diagnosed with…
Magnetic cancer detecting system moves towards commercialisation
By Andrew Spence – The Lead SA. An improved system for detecting cancers that uses…
New research provides hope for patients with hard-to-treat breast cancer
Cancer Research UK scientists have found a new way to slow the growth of the…