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Exercise capacity may affect cognitive health of survivors of childhood leukaemia
A new study found a link between reduced exercise capacity and neurocognitive problems in survivors…
Oxygen in hyperbaric chamber provides relief after radiotherapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can relieve self-reported symptoms and side-effects of radiotherapy against cancer in…
Secrets of lung cancer spread found in patients’ blood and biopsies
Early signs that a patient’s lung cancer may spread and become untreatable can be picked…
New class of drugs could stop cancers developing treatment resistance
Scientists at Massey University in New Zealand have taken the first step towards a new…
Viagra and plerixafor show promise for use in bone marrow transplants
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have demonstrated a new, rapid method to obtain donor stem…
Being overweight before age 40 increases cancer risk
In a study, published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, the researchers wanted to find out how…
Blood test could help to accelerate brain cancer diagnosis
A blood test which could help to accelerate the diagnosis of brain cancer has been…
Gene editing successfully used to treat cervical cancer in mice
The Griffith University scientists used CRISPR-Cas9 to successfully target and treat cervical cancer tumours in…
Microbiome provides new clues to determining development of colon cancer
A mutant protein found in humans with colon cancer blocks a pathway that regulates proliferation…
ESMO 2019: DNA profiling may hold key to better treatment options in carcinoma of unknown primary
DNA profiling is revealing novel treatment choices for patients with cancer whose disease has spread…