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To employ these bacteria in cancer therapies, doctors could inject a patient with dormant spores of an anaerobe. Those spores would travel through the bloodstream and remain inert in healthy oxygenated tissue. (Getty Images/Unsplash)

How we are engineering bacteria to eat cancer

Researchers are working to engineer bacteria that can kill cancerous tumours while reducing harm to healthy cells and tissue.
Chemotherapy is used to treat all lung cancer patients. Yet many would not need such invasive treatment if diagnosis of the risk of recurrence were more refined. A new technology could change all that. (Shutterstock)

Lung cancer: Predicting which patients are at high risk of recurrence to improve outcomes

Treatment for lung cancer patients is the same for everyone, regardless of the risk of recurrence. The use of a new technology could refine diagnosis.

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