News that has caught Rachael Babin’s eye this week
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A potential therapy for the most aggressive type of lung cancer in preclinical models
Lung cancer is one of the most prevalent types of cancer, with more than 20,000…
Progress in treating cancer and infections with T cell therapy
The quest to bring immunotherapy into widespread clinical use against cancer and infectious diseases has…
Obesity promotes pancreatic and breast cancer
Study finds mechanism by which obesity promotes pancreatic and breast cancer Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)…
International Childhood Cancer Day
“Much remains to be done to fight childhood cancer” – IARC New estimates by the…
Australian cancer prevalence exceeds 1 million: new estimates
Time to rethink management of our most feared disease The number of Australians living with…
Scientists discover how breast cancer cells spread from blood vessels
Researchers have identified a protein that controls how breast cancer cells spread around the body,…
Women who survive breast or thyroid cancer are more likely to develop the other type later
The incidence of differentiated thyroid cancer, which includes papillary and follicular cancers, has increased nearly…
I had alcohol-related breast cancer. Here’s why I still drink
By Joanna Moorhead – The Guardian. The chief medical officer advises women to think about cancer…
Researchers identify striking genomic signature shared by 5 types of cancer
National Institutes of Health researchers have identified a striking signature in tumour DNA that occurs…
Dogs accelerate the advance of new cancer treatments for both pets and people
A Science Translational Medicine review suggests integrating dogs with naturally occurring cancers into studies of new drug…