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Resolving to ‘cure cancer’, Obama promises the impossible
By Nial Wheate, University of Sydney. In his 2016 State of the Union address last week,…
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Link between obesity and increased risk of colorectal cancer revealed
Obesity has long been associated with increased risk of colorectal cancer, but the link has…
Laws of nature predict cancer evolution
Cancers evolve over time in patterns governed by the same natural laws that drive physical…
Flexible film may lead to phone-sized cancer detector
A thin, stretchable film that coils light waves like a Slinky could one day lead…
We know it’s effective. So why is there opposition to the HPV vaccine ?
By David Robert Grimes – The Guardian. Over 90% of cervical cancers are caused by HPV. But…
New MRI techniques mean fewer brain surgeries like the one that removed this apple-sized abscess
By Harriet Alexander – SMH. Gilbert Laurie noticed his headache when he was watching television.…
Why most cancer isn’t due to ‘bad luck’
By Sarah Allinson, Lancaster University. A study published in Science in early 2015 reported that most…
Cancer rates decline in many high-income countries, but rise in lower-income countries
Improved screening and detection efforts, combined with decreases in risk factors like smoking, have reduced…
Why we still don’t have personalised medicine, 15 years after sequencing the human genome
By Bryony Graham, University of Oxford. The completion of the first draft of the human genome…
Detecting cancer cells before they form metastases
Single cancer cells migrate with blood flow through the body before they settle in new…