health
Lung Cancer Research Underscores Need for Screening
Posted in Medicine, Science on 26th May, 2024
by Alex Muller
Lung cancer affects the lives of about 40,000 people a year in the UK and previous studies from Liverpool researchers illustrate the unequivocal benefit of lung cancer screening in identified high risk groups.
'New insight into the tricks cancer cells use to keep growing could help beat disease'
Posted in Medicine, Science on 26th May, 2024
by Alex Muller
New research has given us an insight into the tricks that cancer cells are using to keep growing and spreading
Study Explores Why Glioblastoma Treatment May Work Better in the Morning
Posted in Medicine on 23rd May, 2024
by Alex Muller
Rhythms are aligned with daily activity of a DNA repair enzyme known as MGMT. The scientists then conducted tests and found that tumor cells were more likely to die when chemotherapy was administered at the time of day, the morning, when tumor cells had the least MGMT activity.
Proteins in blood could warn of cancer seven years before diagnosis, scientists find
Posted in Medicine, Science on 23rd May, 2024
by Alex Muller
Doctors welcome the "important" discovery and say it is a "crucial first step" towards offering preventative therapies.
Artificial intelligence reveals prostate cancer is not just one disease
Posted in Medicine on 23rd May, 2024
by Alex Muller
“This study is really important because until now, we thought that prostate cancer was just one type of disease. But it is only now, with advancements in artificial intelligence, that we have been able to show that there are actually two different subtypes at play.”