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‘Game-changing’ immunotherapy doubles head and neck cancer survival
An immunotherapy drug has been hailed as a potential ‘game changer’ after being found to…
ESMO 2016: Significant survival gains from neoadjuvant chemo for high-risk soft tissue sarcoma
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy with an anthracycline plus ifosfamide was associated with significant survival gains in patients…
Blood pressure drug may boost effectiveness of lung cancer treatment
A blood pressure drug may make a type of lung cancer treatment more effective, suggests…
Recycling approved drugs for cancer treatment
Researchers at the University of Bergen have discovered that a drug against kidney cancer possibly…
Medicinal cannabis trial to enrol first patients soon
A world-first clinical trial led by UNSW to assess whether medicinal cannabis can enhance the quality…
New way of testing drugs could speed up development of breast cancer treatments
Scientists have discovered a new way to test hundreds of cancer drugs very quickly, which could…
Longer survival of cancer patients given methylnaltrexone suggests role for mu opiate receptor in cancer progression
A study of advanced cancer patients published in the journal Annals of Oncology and presented at this…
Important advance made with new approach to ‘control’ cancer, not eliminate it
Researchers have created a new drug delivery system that could improve the effectiveness of an…
More chemo drugs don’t improve treatment of rare bone cancer
Osteosarcoma patients with tumours that haven’t responded well to the standard chemotherapy regimen have unimproved…
Scientists discover drug combination slows lung cancer cell growth
Scientists have shown that a drug combination slows cancer cell growth in a type of…