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Metformin may lower lung cancer risk in diabetic nonsmokers
Among nonsmokers who had diabetes, those who took the diabetes drug metformin had a decrease…
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Fizzy drinks cause early puberty and increases cancer risk in girls, study finds
Girls who frequently drink fizzy sugary drinks are putting themselves at risk of breast cancer,…
Which breast cancer patients need lymph nodes removed? Ultrasound narrows it down
A new study finds that not all women with lymph node-positive breast cancer treated with…
New agents show promise for ‘fluorescence-guided tumour surgery’
Two new fluorescent dyes attracted to cancer cells may help neurosurgeons more accurately localise and…
New pathway for stalling BRCA tumour growth revealed
Inhibiting the action of a particular enzyme dramatically slows the growth of tumour cells tied…
Lung cancer predicted to overtake breast cancer as leading cause of cancer death among European women in 2015
Death rates from lung cancer will exceed those for breast cancer for the first time…
Protein-based therapy shows promise against resistant leukaemia
Resistance of leukaemia cells to contemporary chemotherapy is one of the most formidable obstacles to…
Cancer nursing: it’s not enough to save someone and say our job is done
By Hayley Leonard – The Guardian. Every day at the Royal Marsden, I see the…
Smoking may increase risks for patients being treated for prostate cancer
Among patients with prostate cancer, those who smoke have increased risks of experiencing side effects…
Taking contraceptive pill for five years doubles risk of brain tumour, warn scientists
By Sarah Knapton – The Telegraph. Female sex hormones used in the contraceptive pill may increase the…