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Common heart drug repurposed to treat rare cancer in Europe
A drug that’s commonly used to treat high blood pressure is being repurposed for a…
Senescence promotes chemotherapy side effects and cancer relapse
Standard chemotherapy is a blunt force instrument against cancer – and it’s a rare cancer…
Tucatinib progressing in pivotal trial against HER2 breast cancer
Phase 1 clinical trial data published this week in the journal Clinical Cancer Research show early promise of…
Scientists raise warning over drugs targeting CDK8 and CDK19
Prototype drugs that block CDK8 and CDK19 could cause severe side-effects in patients Scientists have…
Australian approval for drug that ‘melts’ leukaemia
A new anti-cancer drug with the power to ‘melt away’ certain advanced forms of chronic…
Why high-dose vitamin C kills cancer cells
Vitamin C has a patchy history as a cancer therapy, but researchers at the University…
Gene test could pinpoint patients sensitive to new type of cancer drug
Testing for a gene commonly mutated in ovarian cancers could pick out patients who will…
Long-term anti-inflammatory drug use may increase cancer-related deaths for certain patients
Regular use of over-the-counter non-steroidal inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin and ibuprofen is associated…
Cancer Research UK and Bicycle Therapeutics have collaborated to trial new therapy for advanced solid tumours
Cancer Research UK, Cancer Research Technology (CRT), and Bicycle Therapeutics, a biotechnology company pioneering a…
How metformin prevents and suppresses cancer growth
Considerable evidence has indicated that the drug metformin, used for more than 50 years to…