The latest oncology treatment & supportive care news
Growing tumours on brain-like tissue for better therapies
A new brain tumour model to provide more realistic test responses to chemo and radiotherapy…
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Neuroendocrine tumours: choosing the best treatment
An increasing number of new anti-cancer drugs are made available each year. During the authorisation…
Potential treatment for eye cancer using tumour-killing virus
Hemant Khanna, University of Massachusetts Medical School When most people think of the word “virus,”…
The Body Deserves Our (Compassionate) Attention
In a busy health care practice, the oncology clinician is faced with many competing demands…
Scientists discover potential to prevent cancer in children with neuroblastoma
A team including UNSW Sydney researchers has discovered the link between a cancer-causing gene and a…
A new toolkit for studying how ‘PARP’ activity boosts cancers
A new method developed by scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is…
Bacteria promote lung tumour development, study suggests
MIT cancer biologists have discovered a new mechanism that lung tumours exploit to promote their…
Commonly used anti-rejection drug could be repurposed to treat some liver cancers
Research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in animal models and patient tissues…
High-dose radiation therapy improves long-term survival in patients with stage-IV cancers
The first report from a phase II, multi-centre clinical trial indicates that a newer and…
Researchers propose two new strategies for treating pancreatic cancer
In a pair of new studies, researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center outline strategies…