The latest oncology treatment & supportive care news
Lifting the lid on bladder cancer support
Bladder cancer is a painful and sometimes life-threatening condition that patients can find difficult to…
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Patterns of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia growth identified
In patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), the rate of disease growth is apt to…
New exercise guidelines for people with cancer
A decade-old treatment recommendation for people with cancer to take a “slowly slowly” approach to…
Nerve fibres in skin are involved in initiating neurofibromas in patients with disfiguring Neurofibromatosis 1
A study published today in PLOS ONE discovered the origin of severely disfiguring masses of cells,…
Research provides insight into genetic link to potential treatment response among BRCA1/2 breast cancer patients
New findings from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania…
Q&A: treating vocal cord cancer
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My brother was diagnosed with stage 0 squamous cell carcinoma in situ…
Liquid biopsy could identify cancer patients at risk of metastatic disease
Analysing fragments of DNA that are shed by tumours into the bloodstream, could indicate early…
ASCO 2019: Lenalidomide reduces risk that precancer myeloma will progress to overt multiple myeloma in high risk individuals
“Living with the uncertainty of whether cancer will develop is very difficult, so it’s exciting…
World’s first ‘Darwinian’ cancer drug programme aims to deliver step change in cancer treatment
The world’s first ‘Darwinian’ drug discovery programme specially designed to tackle cancer’s lethal ability to…
ASCO 2019: Entrectinib produces responses in children and adolescents with CNS and other cancers that have specific gene fusions
“There have been far fewer studies of targeted cancer medicines in paediatric populations than in…