Shorter course of radiation improves quality of life for breast cancer patients
Women who receive a shorter course of whole breast radiation therapy for early stage disease…
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Two-drug combination boosts survival in metastatic prostate cancer
Newly diagnosed patients with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer gained a dramatic survival benefit when started…
Cancer-detecting dogs approved for NHS trial
Animals at specialist charity will undergo evaluation at Milton Keynes hospital after proving 93% effective…
Exercise during teen years linked to lowered risk of cancer death later
Women who exercised during their teen years were less likely to die from cancer and…
NICE says ‘not enough data’ to approve drug for ovarian cancer
The UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says it cannot give a…
Thousands of womb cancers prevented by the pill, study says
The contraceptive pill has prevented some 200,000 cases of womb cancer over the last decade…
Breast Cancer Researcher Receives States Top Honours
Professor John Forbes AM has received the 2015 NSW Premier’s Award for Outstanding Cancer Researcher…
Prostate cancer is five different diseases
Cancer Research UK scientists have for the first time identified that there are five distinct…
Wireless radiation and cancer
By Rachael Babin, Oncology News Australia. Last week we covered a review article that claimed a…
“We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
ANZUP ASM Review by Venu Chalasani. Guest speaker Professor Mohamed Khadra called on a well-known phrase…