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Patients still needlessly dying of lung cancer due to local variations in care, UK
Dec 03, 2014
Results from the National Lung Cancer Audit (NLCA) published 3 December 2014 show that a substantial number of patients are needlessly dying of lung cancer as a result of local variation in care. Read More
Ciliopathies offer insight into a variety of human diseases and syndromes
Dec 03, 2014
In recent years, cilia, microscopic, tentacle-like extensions from biological cells, have risen from relative obscurity and are now considered important to the understanding of many human afflictions. Read More
A lung cancer risk prediction model and newly established risk threshold can more efficiently identify who should be screened for lung cancer
Dec 02, 2014
A new method for determining lung cancer risk could more efficiently identify individuals for annual screening and catch more cancers early, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine. Read More
Scientists discover why bowel cancer sometimes outsmarts treatment
Dec 02, 2014
A new study that challenges the prevailing view of how bowel cancer develops in the large intestine is published in Nature Medicine. Read More
New cause of child brain tumour condition identified
Dec 02, 2014
Doctors and scientists from The University of Manchester have identified changes in a gene, which can increase the risk of developing brain tumours in children with a rare inherited condition... Read More
NICE reverses decision on access to new blood cancer drug
Dec 02, 2014
NHS patients in England and Wales with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) could soon benefit from Gazyvaro, which has today been given the provisional green light by the National Institute for... Read More
Lack of follow-up care puts childhood cancer survivors at risk
Dec 02, 2014
A presentation at the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia's (COSA's) Annual Scientific Meeting, will reveal that around two in five childhood cancer survivors are missing follow-up medical... Read More
Exercise effective for bone cancer patients
Dec 02, 2014
Findings being presented at the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia's (COSA's) Annual Scientific Meeting shows that traditional recommendations for cancer patients with bone metastases to avoid... Read More
2D images as the new tool for cancer prevention
Dec 02, 2014
Portuguese researchers have developed a new method, which from images of a protein in a population of cells quantifies its distribution (how much there is, and where in the cell) for that... Read More
New substance overcomes treatment-restistance in leukaemia
Dec 02, 2014
Haematologists from Goethe University Frankfurt, working with a Russian pharmaceutical company, have developed a new active substance that effectively combats the most aggressive forms of... Read More
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