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A breakthrough therapy is driving aggressive leukaemia into remission. Here’s what the headlines don’t tell you about life after treatment.
Bacteria are being used to target tumours, enhance chemotherapy and deliver cancer drugs. Here’s where the science is up to.
Stopping cells from dividing into new cells is one way to fight cancer. This is how the drug abemaciclib works.
Art, music and poetry therapy can help patients feel more optimistic and less isolated as well as to embrace the uncertainty that comes with illness.
A small trial suggests a powerful new way of beating non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.
A new breast cancer test predicts whether a patient will benefit from endocrine therapy, allowing patients and their doctors to make better treatment decisions.
Cancer treatment could be revolutionised by the discovery of the origin cells which divide first.
When you think of viruses, you might think of the horrible illnesses they cause, like flu or Ebola. But now researchers are learning how to use the unique traits of viruses to treat disease.
What started with a study of diseases transmitted by mosquitos, could end with a new way of treating cancer.
Researchers believe that combining immunotherapy with traditional therapies such as radiation could open up new possibilities for cancer treatment.
There are several natural remedies that have can help reduce cancer cells.
Novel drugs that reduce the spread of cancer in mice could pave the way for changing the way we fight tumours.
Eating less sugar isn’t enough to stop glucose-hungry cancer cells but new research points the way to how we might starve them to death.
New immunotherapy drugs that enhance the body’s natural ability to fight cancer offer several key advantages over previous treatments.
After treatment ends, many cancer survivors are left with sexual changes that, when left unaddressed, can become long-term problems.
Extracts from a berry can improve the effectiveness of a chemotherapy drug, according to research published today in the Journal of Clinical Pathology. But it’s best to view this finding with caution because…
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PhD (Human Physiology), Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Assistant Professor, Georgia State University
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Associate Professor in Cancer Research, University of Leeds
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Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macquarie University
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Professor, Department of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Science, Brunel University of London
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Professor of Experimental Cancer Research, University of Southampton
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Professor of microbial genetics, Swansea University
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Lead Investigator of Rekindle; Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Sydney
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Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Medical Oncology, University of Surrey
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Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, UMass Chan Medical School
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Professor of Translational Medicine, University of Salford
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Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
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Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)