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Men face higher risk of cancers linked to oral sex
Men are twice as likely as women to get cancer of the mouth and throat…
Browsing: Clinical Focus
Interferon not beneficial for most stage III melanoma
Final results for the Sunbelt Melanoma Trial, published online this month in the Journal of Clinical…
A potential therapy for the most aggressive type of lung cancer in preclinical models
Lung cancer is one of the most prevalent types of cancer, with more than 20,000…
Progress in treating cancer and infections with T cell therapy
The quest to bring immunotherapy into widespread clinical use against cancer and infectious diseases has…
Cancer researchers claim ‘extraordinary results’ using T-cell therapy
By Alan Yuhas – The Guardian. ‘This is unprecedented’ says researcher after more than half…
Obesity promotes pancreatic and breast cancer
Study finds mechanism by which obesity promotes pancreatic and breast cancer Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)…
International Childhood Cancer Day
“Much remains to be done to fight childhood cancer” – IARC New estimates by the…
Discovery lays the foundation to expand personalised chemotherapy for leukaemia patients
An international research team has determined how inherited gene variations lead to severe drug toxicity…
Australian cancer prevalence exceeds 1 million: new estimates
Time to rethink management of our most feared disease The number of Australians living with…
Women who survive breast or thyroid cancer are more likely to develop the other type later
The incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer, which includes papillary and follicular cancers, has increased nearly…