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Better together: improving brain tumour treatment
Posted in Medicine on 11th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller
“It’s a very, very specific environment,” stresses Chalmers. There’s the blood-brain barrier, for a start, and then there’s the difficulty of killing cancer cells without damaging the healthy ones around them – the ones we think, act, share and learn with; that make any of this possible.
Children’s cancer charities team up for tomorrow’s treatments
Posted in Medicine on 11th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller
In order to give young people, teenagers and children with cancer the best chance of survival without side effects, we have to approach their diseases differently.
Institute of Cancer Research embraces olaparib recommendation
Posted in Medicine on 11th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller
"Olaparib is an important example of how understanding the underlying genetics of patients, and their tumours’ genomics, can be used to design highly targeted precision medicines.”
Cancer: New blood test could catch prostate cancer early
Posted in Medicine on 10th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller
The project will investigate specific sugars found in the bloodstream of men with prostate cancer that could be used in tests to determine a man's risk of developing the disease, and how likely it is to spread.
Scientists discover a new way to help prevent breast cancer ‘time bomb’
Posted in Medicine, Science on 6th Apr, 2023
by Alex Muller
Scientists have discovered why breast cancer cells that have spread to the lungs may ‘wake up’ following years of sleep - forming incurable secondary tumours.