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6 out of 10 patients in England with ‘red flag’ symptoms not given urgent cancer referral
Six out of 10 patients in England with ‘red flag’ symptoms indicative of possible cancer…
Calculating the path of cancer
Biologists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in the USA are using a mathematical approach…
A protein causes significantly higher risk of severe cancer progression for men
A remarkable number of life-threatening diseases manifest more severely in males than in females. One…
Weighing cancer cells to personalise drug choices
Researchers at MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (USA) have developed a new way to determine…
‘Research autopsy’ helps scientists study why certain cancer therapies stop working
A new research study at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G.…
Are too many Phase III cancer clinical trials set up to fail?
New research in the September 2021 issue of JNCCN – Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer…
High burden of liver, stomach and cervical cancers among the Hispanic/Latino population highlights access to care challenges
A new report shows that although Hispanic men and women in the continental United States…
Cancer shortens lifespan in transplant recipients
People who have received organ transplants face an elevated risk of developing cancer, primarily due…
Can fruit fly research help improve survival of cancer patients?
The experience of a fruit fly dying from cancer may seem worlds away from that…
Black women face three-fold increased risk of triple negative breast cancers
An analysis of nearly 200,000 patients who received mammograms between 2006 and 2015 across three…