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Experts advise against routine testing for prostate cancer
Routine testing for prostate cancer is not recommended for most men because the benefit is…
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Blocking glycogen, a key energy source, could slow or prevent ovarian cancer spread
In nearly 80 percent of women with ovarian cancer, the disease has already spread to…
Half of over-60s ignore lifesaving bowel cancer screening
Half (51%) of people invited to bowel screening for the first time in 2015 didn’t…
Tetris-like program could speed breast cancer detection
Researchers from the University of Adelaide’s Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) are developing a…
Scientists test new cancer vaccine against melanoma
An experimental cancer vaccine that boosts the immune system’s ability to fight cancers could work…
Undescended testes in boyhood linked to testicular cancer and infertility in adulthood
Led by the University of Sydney researchers and published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health,…
New online tool for clinicians could predict long-term risk of breast cancer returning
A new, simple web-based calculator that could better predict the long term risk of breast…
Blood-borne cancer detection receives gold-plated boost
Scientists will be able to detect cancer earlier from blood samples after advances were made in…
Cancer blood test to get much more accurate – thanks to malaria protein
Cancer tumour cells in the blood can be more accurately and cheaply detected using a…
Like shark attack and the lottery, unconscious bias influences cancer screening
What do shark attacks, the lottery and ovarian cancer screening having in common? It turns…