cancer
We Are Slowly Winning the War on Cancer
Posted in Medicine on 30th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller
Cancer mortality rate has been reduced from a peak of 215 deaths per 100,000 people in 1991 to 172 deaths per 100,000 people in 2010.
Stanford researchers create 'evolved' protein that may stop cancer from spreading
Posted in Medicine on 22nd Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller
Protein therapy that disrupts the process that causes cancer to break away, travel through the bloodstream and start new growths elsewhere.
Breast cancer test 'Angelina Jolie effect' found
Posted in Medicine on 20th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller
Referrals to breast cancer clinics more than doubled in the UK after Angelina Jolie announced she had had a double mastectomy to prevent breast cancer.
NHS cancer services struggling, says charity
Posted in Medicine on 8th Sep, 2014
by Alex Muller
NHS cancer services in England are at a "tipping point" in the wake of years of efficiency savings and the recent NHS reforms, warns Cancer Research UK.
Researchers Say They've Discovered how to Detect Half of All Cancers
Posted in Medicine on 26th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller
An effective way to detect cancer which may expose half of all cancers at an early stage when it can be more easily treated.