Scientists discover way to stop spread of devastating childhood cancer: Researchers at the University of East Anglia and University of Manchester have made an important breakthrough that could lead to ‘kinder’ treatments for children with bone cancer, and save lives. Current treatment is gruelling, with outdated chemotherapy cocktails and limb amputation. But despite all of […]
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Action Radiotherapy calls for an urgent resolution to the cancer backlog caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. “A dramatic intervention from Government and the NHS is needed to prevent thousands of lives being unnecessarily lost to the cancer backlog resulting from the Covid response”, Chair of Action Radiotherapy Professor Pat Price says following BBC Breakfast TV […]
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CAR-T cell therapy is a new and revolutionary weapon against cancer: T cells are isolated from the patient’s blood for genetic modification and then infused back into the patient to attack cancer cells. Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna have now determined why CAR-T cells do not destroy tumor cells that express tumor antigens […]
Human-Artificial intelligence collaborations best for skin cancer diagnosis: Artificial intelligence (AI) improved skin cancer diagnostic accuracy when used in collaboration with human clinical checks, an international study including University of Queensland researchers has found. The global team tested for the first time whether a ‘real world’, collaborative approach involving clinicians assisted by AI improved the accuracy of […]
One in three UK patients face deadly six-month wait for accurate diagnosis of sarcoma cancer, charity Sarcoma UK warns during Sarcoma Awareness Week 29th June to 5th July 2020. Poor awareness of the symptoms of one of the least understood forms of cancer among the public and healthcare professionals, made worse by a complex diagnostic […]
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Thousands of lives lost to bladder cancers each year could be saved thanks to a new scanner that uses photonics to illuminate parts of the tissue that are currently impossible to visualise. A European photonics research team is developing a new endoscope to scan for the early signs of bladder cancer. Using multi-wavelength lasers, the […]
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Men in England & Wales miss out on abiraterone as first-line treatment for advanced prostate cancer: The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has expressed disappointment at the decision by NICE not to recommend abiraterone as a first-line treatment on the NHS for newly diagnosed, advanced prostate cancer. The decision puts the NHS in England and Wales out […]
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Cancers are often heavily reliant on breaking down fats for their growth and spread, and could be treated by a highly innovative combination of new drugs and dietary changes, a major new study concludes. Analysing cancer’s metabolism with a surgical ‘iKnife’ detects tumours with heavy reliance on fats Landmark study finds metabolic weakness could be […]
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The need for urgent cancer diagnosis and screening is becoming more acute by each passing day according to one of the UK’s top cancer experts. Professor Karol Sikora, chief medical officer at Rutherford Health and former head of the WHO’s cancer programme, is calling for a major effort to ramp up diagnosis after 25 charities […]
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NHS England has given the green light and a £1 million grant for a team to develop a pain-free, non-invasive and instant way to detect mouth cancer. The funding from SBRI Healthcare has been awarded to the University of Sheffield and medical device diagnostics company Zilico, to create a fully functioning prototype. Once built and […]