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New ‘don’t eat me’ signal may provide basis for cancer therapies
Researchers have discovered a new signal that cancers seem to use to evade detection and…
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Stress in cervical cancer patients associated with higher risk of cancer-specific mortality
A study published in the journal Cancer Research has reported that psychological stress has been found to…
New drug provides hope for babies with aggressive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
A breakthrough new drug is providing hope to tiny babies at risk of dying from…
Simultaneous infection by two viruses could be the key to study rare lymphoma
New research has found that a rare blood cancer can be simulated in the lab…
New therapy to treat drug-resistant acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia accounts for one in five adult leukaemias. While new immune therapies have…
Lymph nodes can predict survival in patients with oesophageal cancer
Optimal methods for predicting treatment efficacy in patients with oesophageal cancer are seriously lacking. But…
Globally, more than 11 million years of healthy life lost due to childhood cancer in 2017
While the number of new cancer cases in children and adolescents (aged 0-19 years) is…
Proton therapy for prostate cancer: does the evidence support the hype?
Stephen McMahon, Queen’s University Belfast High energy proton beam therapy, an advanced form of radiotherapy,…
Microrobots show promise for treating tumours
Targeting medical treatment to an ailing body part is a practice as old as medicine…
Cancer drug data release set to power next wave of therapeutic discovery
The Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer project (www.cancerrxgene.org) have released the results of four…