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LSD’s medical comeback
By Sam Wong. In a town in Switzerland, people with cancer are taking LSD to…
Increasing breastfeeding worldwide could prevent over 800,000 child deaths and 20,000 deaths from breast cancer every year
Just 1 in 5 children in high-income countries are breastfed to 12 months, whilst only…
Proton beam therapy offers potential to treat childhood brain cancer with fewer severe side effects than conventional radiotherapy
Proton beam therapy—a more precise form of radiotherapy—to treat the childhood brain cancer medulloblastoma appears…
Breakthrough therapy gives hope for new leukaemia treatment
In a world-first clinical trial, Melbourne medical researchers have shown that patients with an advanced…
Higher dietary fibre intake in young women may reduce breast cancer risk
Women who eat more high-fibre foods during adolescence and young adulthood—especially lots of fruits and…
Study finds significant cognitive impairment in adult survivors of childhood brain tumours
Cancer survivors of childhood brain tumours show significant deficits in intelligence, educational achievement and employment,…
New pen-sized microscope could ID cancer cells in doctor’s offices and operating rooms
Surgeons removing a malignant brain tumour don’t want to leave cancerous material behind. But they’re…
Families’ views of end-of-life care and physician-aided death in the US
An outcomes study led by Alexi Wright, MD, MPH, a researcher and a gynecological oncologist in…
Cancer in China: More than 7500 cancer deaths per day estimated
A new report estimates there were 4.3 million new cancer cases and more than 2.8…
Glowing tumours could help surgeons cut out cancer
A breast cancer patient is wheeled into the operating room. She is connected to an…