cancer

Injecting Liquid Metal Could Help Kill Tumours, Says Chinese Research Team

Posted in Medicine on 12th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

Filling blood vessels with liquid metal starves nearby tissue of oxygen and nutrients.

Breakthroughs made in ovarian cancer research

Posted in Medicine on 11th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

Ovarian cancer is currently one of the most difficult cancers to diagnose early due to the lack of symptoms that are unique to the illness.

Aspirin a day could dramatically cut cancer risk, says biggest study yet

Posted in Medicine on 6th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

Daily pill for middle-aged could save 130,000 lives over 20 years in Britain alone, scientists suggest.

One reason brain tumors are more common in men

Posted in Medicine on 5th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

New research helps explain why brain tumors occur more often in males and frequently are more harmful than similar tumors in females.

Cancer experts predict the end of chemotherapy in 20 years

Posted in Medicine on 5th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

Scientists have declared that more effective cancer treatments will soon replace chemotherapy thanks to a world-first project to find the genes responsible for cancers.