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Five-Year Pancreatic Cancer Survival Rate Increases to 12%
Posted in Medicine, Science on 19th Mar, 2023
by Alex Muller
American Cancer Society’s Cancer Facts & Figures 2023, released today, reports that the five-year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is now 12%, an increase of one percentage point from last year.
Cancer Research UK - '20 years on: how we’ve decreased cancer death rates'
Posted in Medicine on 19th Mar, 2023
by Alex Muller
Drugs linked to research by the charity are used to treat more than 125,000 people in England every year – that’s 3 out of every 4 people who receive cancer drugs in the NHS.
Targeting variant of common protein may dramatically boost effectiveness of breast cancer treatment
Posted in Medicine, Science on 19th Mar, 2023
by Alex Muller
A rare variant of a protein present in nearly all human cells may hold the key to improving the effectiveness of breast cancer treatment, according to University of Manchester research funded by Breast Cancer Now.
Drug combination elicits efficacious anti-tumor immunity against immunotherapy-resistant cancers
Posted in Medicine, Science on 19th Mar, 2023
by Alex Muller
Some patients still either don't respond to immunotherapy, or if they do, the effects are temporary, which highlights how crucial it is that we better understand the mechanisms leading to cancers resisting this kind of treatment.
First UK proton beam therapy trial for breast cancer launches
Posted in Medicine, Science on 19th Mar, 2023
by Alex Muller
It will help to determine whether proton beam therapy can help to deliver adequate doses of radiotherapy to breast tissue, while minimising off-target radiation delivered to the heart.