Children lose muscle during early cancer treatment
New research has highlighted that children undergoing cancer treatment often lose skeletal muscle at a…
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Machine learning model to predict unplanned hospital visits for lung cancer patients
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Death rates from diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and stroke declined in four out…
New review calls for age-specific immunotherapy in childhood brain tumours
Paediatric brain tumours are the deadliest form of childhood cancer, yet most treatments are adapted…
Why have cancer survival rates stopped improving in the UK?
Ahmed Elbediwy, Kingston University, and Nadine Wehida, Kingston University More people are surviving cancer than…