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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.