Genetic makeup may make radiation riskier for pediatric cancer patients
Genetic vulnerabilities associated with childhood cancers may make children undergoing radiation therapy more susceptible than…
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Drug for fungal infections in lung transplant recipients increases risk for cancer
Voriconazole, a prescription drug commonly used to treat fungal infections in lung transplant recipients, significantly…
Penn researchers report long-term remissions in first personalised cell therapy CLL trial
Eight of 14 patients in the first trial of the University of Pennsylvania’s personalised cellular…
Australian First: Zero Childhood Cancer Program
Personalised medicine program aims to push childhood cancer survival rates to 100% Children’s Cancer Institute…
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Victorian men in their mid-60s have a one in six chance of developing cancer within…
Some with low-risk prostate cancer not likely to succumb to the disease
Men with relatively unaggressive prostate tumours and whose disease is carefully monitored by urologists are…
Almost 30% of girls turning 15 not fully immunised against HPV
Around 38,400 of the estimated 137,460 girls aged 15 in 2013 were not fully immunised…
‘Eat me’ signal whets appetites for tumour-devouring dendritic cells
By changing the mouse model they use to study how the immune system responds to…