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New treatment strategy cuts risk of bowel cancer returning by 28%
Posted in Medicine, Science on 20th Jan, 2023
by Alex Muller
UK trial across three countries finds that giving patients chemotherapy before surgery was more effective.
Targeting variant of common protein may dramatically boost effectiveness of breast cancer treatment
Posted in Medicine, Science on 14th Jan, 2023
by Alex Muller
A rare variant of a protein present in nearly all human cells may hold the key to improving the effectiveness of breast cancer treatment, according to University of Manchester research funded by Breast Cancer Now.
New partnership to boost research into vaccines for cancer
Posted in Medicine, Science on 14th Jan, 2023
by Alex Muller
New cancer trials to begin using personalised treatment to save lives.
Lung cancer: How juice from sarunashi fruit may inhibit tumor growth
Posted in Medicine on 14th Jan, 2023
by Alex Muller
Researchers from Okayama University in Japan say they have found evidence that ingesting juice from the sarunashi fruit grown in Japan can help prevent and reduce lung cancer
First UK proton beam therapy trial for breast cancer launches
Posted in Medicine on 14th Jan, 2023
by Alex Muller
Proton beam therapy has been used in other countries to treat breast cancer, but numbers of participants in these trials are small and there have been no reported trials that directly compare proton beam therapy with standard radiotherapy.