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26 Nov 2018

Screening Programmes Improve Chances of Survival in Breast Cancer Patients

Debate has been ongoing for some time in the medical community as to whether screening programmes for breast cancer have any significant impact on the…
11 Sep 2018

New Understanding of the Specific Mutations that Drive Cancer

Driver mutations that cause cancers to spread are common to all metastases in a single patient, a study from Stanford University, California, USA has…
24 Aug 2018

Association Between Skin Cancer and the Risk of Other Malignancies

Basal cell carcinoma is one of the most common forms of skin cancer, with millions of Americans diagnosed with the malignancy each year. However…
24 Aug 2018

New Scale Helps Match Patients to the Optimal Cancer Therapy

Targeted cancer treatment options should become more simplified and standardised following the creation of a new scale for tumour DNA mutations that has…
22 Aug 2018

Innovative Technique Can Predict Response to Lymphoma Therapy

Response to therapy in diffuse large B cell lymphoma patients can be assessed quickly by measuring changes in circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) levels…
15 Aug 2018

‘Game Theory’ Could Improve Metastatic Cancer Treatment

Metastatic cancer patient outcomes could be improved by applying the principles of evolutionary ‘game theory’ to therapies, a study from Maastricht…
2 Aug 2018

Study Could Help Overcome Resistance to a Common Cancer Treatment

Cancer cell resistance to PARP inhibitor therapy could be overcome following the discovery of various mechanisms that lay behind this resistance. The…
1 Aug 2018

Novel Technique Could Provide More Effective Treatment for Spinal Column Tumours

Tumours in spinal columns could be treated by adapting a procedure called kyphoplasty, which is used to heal spinal fractures caused by tumours or…
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