cancer

Lung cancer: Two signs which can show in your eyelid 'caused by the tumour'

Posted in Medicine on 25th Feb, 2022
by Alex Muller

The NHS says that there are usually no signs or symptoms in the early stages, though symptoms of lung cancer develop as the condition progresses.

Ketogenic diet could enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer, study shows

Posted in Medicine on 23rd Feb, 2022
by Alex Muller

By depriving the body of sugar, the ketogenic diet forces the body to break down fats to generate molecules known as ketone bodies that can be burned by cells to generate energy.

Immunity-boosting breast cancer drug could save thousands, finds UK research

Posted in Medicine on 23rd Feb, 2022
by Alex Muller

Keytruda treatment found to cut risk of aggressive cancer returning after surgery by more than a third.

Shot Of Engineered Immune Cells Helps Heal Heart Damage

Posted in Medicine, Science on 29th Jan, 2022
by Alex Muller

The idea "Is ground-breaking because it's a whole new way of thinking about a therapeutic application, redirecting the T cell to control other aberrant cells. Obviously that makes huge sense in cancer, but that's just the start of things".

Tens of thousands of NHS patients a year could benefit from new AI test

Posted in Medicine on 21st Jan, 2022
by Alex Muller

Researchers and doctors in London have joined a tech start-up to train a device to spot the form of the disease known as HER2-low.