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Preventing deaths from bowel cancer
In 2006 the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (NBCSP) was introduced and its progressive phasing…
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Casting cancer as a ‘war’ or ‘battle’ may harm health, study finds
Cancer is often cast as a “battle” or a “war” that should be fought and…
Drug that blocks blood vessel growth could treat rare sarcomas
An experimental targeted drug could treat a rare type of cancer usually affecting the limbs,…
Combination of AI & radiologists more accurately identified breast cancer
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool–trained on roughly a million screening mammography images–identified breast cancer with…
New international exercise guidelines for cancer survivors
For the rising number of cancer survivors worldwide, there’s growing evidence that exercise is an…
Glowing particles in the blood may help diagnose and monitor brain cancer
A chemical that has improved surgeries for brain cancer by making tumour cells fluorescent may…
Targeted therapy that can help children with deadly nerve cancer
Mount Sinai researchers have identified a targeted therapy for adolescent patients with neuroblastoma, a deadly…
Secrets of lung cancer spread found in patients’ blood and biopsies
Early signs that a patient’s lung cancer may spread and become untreatable can be picked…
New class of drugs could stop cancers developing treatment resistance
Scientists at Massey University in New Zealand have taken the first step towards a new…
Being overweight before age 40 increases cancer risk
In a study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, the researchers wanted to find out how…