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Little evidence for any direct impact of national cancer policies on short-term survival in England
A study published by The BMJ today finds little evidence for any direct impact of national cancer…
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AACR 2018: Acquired HER2 mutations confer resistance to hormone therapy in ER positive MBC
Mutations in human epidermal growth factor receptor2 (HER2) were found to confer resistance to hormone…
Study suggests that cancer survivors are more easily fatigued
Adults who have undergone successful cancer treatment years or decades previously become fatigued more quickly…
In the eye of the medulloblastoma
Can genes normally expressed only in the eye be activated in brain tumours? Such a…
Turning off autophagy helps chemotherapy stress cancer cells to death
A process called autophagy (from the Greek term for “self-eating”) helps cells survive stress -…
Switching chemo on and off to reduce side effects
A new anti-cancer drug that could be switched ‘on’ and ‘off’ inside the body has…
Binge watching TV increases bowel cancer risk in men
Sitting down to binge watch more than four hours of TV over a day could…
Overdiagnosis – when finding cancer can do more harm than good
Not all cancers are equal. Some grow fast and spread quickly, while others grow so…
Cancer ‘signature’ first step toward blood test for patients
A discovery by Melbourne researchers could help to identify patients with a particularly aggressive type…
New online tool can predict your melanoma risk
Phoebe Roth, The Conversation Australians over the age of 40 can now calculate their risk…