medicine

New partnership to boost research into vaccines for cancer

Posted in Medicine, Science on 14th Jan, 2023
by Alex Muller

New cancer trials to begin using personalised treatment to save lives.

Lung cancer: How juice from sarunashi fruit may inhibit tumor growth

Posted in Medicine on 14th Jan, 2023
by Alex Muller

Researchers from Okayama University in Japan say they have found evidence that ingesting juice from the sarunashi fruit grown in Japan can help prevent and reduce lung cancer

First UK proton beam therapy trial for breast cancer launches

Posted in Medicine on 14th Jan, 2023
by Alex Muller

Proton beam therapy has been used in other countries to treat breast cancer, but numbers of participants in these trials are small and there have been no reported trials that directly compare proton beam therapy with standard radiotherapy.

The virtual reality technology that could revolutionise cancer treatment

Posted in Games, Medicine, Software on 12th Jan, 2023
by Alex Muller

Virtual reality might soon help scientists and doctors better understand how to treat patients' cancerous tumours.

Investigational T-cell therapy shows antiviral efficacy and safety in cancer patients treated with stem cell transplant

Posted in Medicine on 12th Jan, 2023
by Alex Muller

Posoleucel T-cell therapy that simultaneously targets six different viruses, demonstrated promising antiviral efficacy and safety in a phase II study of patients who had undergone stem cell transplantation to treat their cancer or other blood diseases.