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What Can Cancer Research Learn From Agricultural Pest Management?
Posted in Medicine, Science on 25th Nov, 2024
by Alexander Muller
Borrowing principles from pest management, researchers aim to extend the survival rate and quality of life for cancer patients.
Smoking could cause 300,000 cancer cases in UK by 2029, study finds
Posted in Medicine, Science on 25th Nov, 2024
by Alexander Muller
MPs are being urged to back plans to make the UK the first country to eradicate smoking, as new figures suggest tobacco will result in almost 300,000 Britons getting cancer within the next five years.
£3m for world-first trial to revolutionise brain cancer treatment
Posted in Medicine, Science on 23rd Nov, 2024
by Alexander Muller
The 5G platform trial, will use a unique, flexible approach to test multiple medicines as treatments for people living with glioblastoma, a fast-growing form of brain cancer which lacks treatment options.
Tissue Is the Issue for Novel Cancer Drug Discovery
Posted in Medicine, Science on 23rd Nov, 2024
by Alexander Muller
Tissue standardization processes are of critical importance for advancing cancer research.
COVID caused cancer tumours to shrink in mice
Posted in Medicine, Science on 23rd Nov, 2024
by Alexander Muller
This mechanism is particularly exciting because it offers a new approach to fighting cancer that doesn’t rely on T cells, which are the focus of many current immunotherapy treatments.