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Aspirin may increase survival after colon cancer
It is well known that aspirin has analgesic and fever-reducing properties. However, this drug may also…
“Any exercise better than none” to improve ovarian cancer survival
Knowing how much exercise is enough to prevent health problems can be confusing, but two…
High levels of education linked to heightened brain tumour risk
A university degree is linked to a heightened risk of developing a brain tumour, suggests…
‘Holy grail’ of breast cancer prevention in high-risk women may be in sight
Australian researchers have discovered that an existing medication could have promise in preventing breast cancer…
Probing proteins’ 3-D structures suggests existing drugs may work for many cancers
Distant mutations that seemed unimportant now considered major contenders for driving tumour growth Examining databases…
Starving cancer cells by blocking their metabolism
Scientists have found a way to starve liver cancer cells by blocking a protein that…
New insight into most common type of infant leukaemia
Peter Mac researchers have made an important advance in our understanding of the most common…
The long read: The cancer drugs in your bathroom cabinet
By Linda Geddes – The Guardian. Researchers have had promising results treating tumours with everyday medicines.…
Landmark study shows Acute Myeloid Leukaemia is at least 11 different diseases
Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their international collaborators have shown that Acute…
Screening strategy may predict lethal prostate cancer later in life
Prostate cancer screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has been shown to reduce death and the…