News that has caught Rachael Babin’s eye this week
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Sex differences identified in deadly brain tumours
For decades, scientists have recognised that more males get cancer and die of the disease…
Clinical trial launches to develop breath test for multiple cancers
Researchers have launched a clinical trial to develop a breath test, analysing molecules that could…
Patients now living a median 6.8 years after stage IV ALK positive lung cancer diagnosis
According to the National Cancer Institute, patients diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) between…
An errant editing enzyme promotes tumour suppressor loss and leukaemia propagation
Writing in the journal Cancer Cell, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine…
Study reveals how solid stress from brain tumours causes neuronal loss, neurologic dysfunction
A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-led research team has demonstrated, for the first time, how solid…
New reference values for cancer patients’ quality of life
Researchers and practitioners across the globe frequently use the ‘EORTC’ questionnaire to measure self-reported quality…
AYA World Cancer Congress Review by Ian Olver
Report on 3rd Annual Global Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Congress, December 4-6th Sydney, Australia…
Survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma face high long-term risk of solid cancers
New research refines existing evidence that survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma face an elevated risk…
Researchers develop personalised medicine tool for inherited colorectal cancer syndrome
An international team of researchers led by Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of…
SABCS 2018: Choice of surgery may affect quality of life for young breast cancer survivors
Even as more young women with breast cancer opt to have mastectomies, many experience a…