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Combination drug therapy shrinks pancreatic tumours in mice
A combination of two drugs appears to be effective at shrinking pancreatic cancers in laboratory…
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme becoming unsustainable, says Senate committee
By Melissa Davey – The Guardian. Australia has the highest incidence of cancer in the world,…
The ups and downs of incorporating a new treatment to try to prevent chemotherapy-associated neuropa
In this age of the 24-hour news cycle, instant access to all information everywhere, PubMed,…
Pancreatic cancer stem cells could be ‘suffocated’ by an anti-diabetic drug
Cancer cells commonly rely on glycolysis, the type of metabolism that does not use oxygen…
New cancer drugs are very expensive – here’s how we work out value for our money
Jonathan Karnon, Hossein Haji Ali Afzali, and Laura C Edney. The Senate Standing Committee on Community…
Aspirin could hold the key to supercharged cancer immunotherapy
Giving cancer patients aspirin at the same time as immunotherapy could dramatically boost the effectiveness…
Diabetes drug may help in leukaemia
Source: The BBC A drug used to treat diabetes could help in the fight against…
Chemo drug works by tricking cells into thinking they’re infected
A type of chemotherapy drug appears to work by tricking cells into thinking they’re infected with…
Study compares heparin to warfarin for treatment of blood clots in patients with cancer
Among patients with active cancer and acute symptomatic venous thromboembolism (VTE; blood clots in the…
Cancer researchers publish landmark “basket study”
Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have announced results from the first published…