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Farming men’s cancer incidence below other rural men
A large health study is challenging the view that male farmers are more cancer-prone than…
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Why the causes of cancer are more than just random ‘bad luck’
By Darren Saunders, Garvan Institute. What causes cancer? This deceptively simple question has a devilishly…
One in two people in UK will get cancer, study says
One in two people will develop cancer at some point in their lives, according to…
New App for Clinical Skin Cancer Diagnosis Launches on World Cancer Day 2015
On World Cancer Day 2015 general practitioners physicians and dermatologists in the United States United…
Fizzy drinks cause early puberty and increases cancer risk in girls, study finds
Girls who frequently drink fizzy sugary drinks are putting themselves at risk of breast cancer,…
Which breast cancer patients need lymph nodes removed? Ultrasound narrows it down
A new study finds that not all women with lymph node-positive breast cancer treated with…
New agents show promise for ‘fluorescence-guided tumour surgery’
Two new fluorescent dyes attracted to cancer cells may help neurosurgeons more accurately localise and…
When talking about cancer screening, survival rates mislead
By Katy Bell, University of Sydney; Alexandra Barratt, University of Sydney, and Andrew Hayen. Cancer…
Protein-based therapy shows promise against resistant leukaemia
Resistance of leukaemia cells to contemporary chemotherapy is one of the most formidable obstacles to…
Cancer nursing: it’s not enough to save someone and say our job is done
By Hayley Leonard – The Guardian. Every day at the Royal Marsden, I see the…