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World’s first jab to stop skin cancer being tested in UK patients | UK News
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The world’s first personalised mRNA cancer jab for melanoma is being tested in British patients. The “gamechanger” jab also has the potential to stop bladder, lung and kidney cancer. It’s custom built for each person and tells the body to identify cancer cells and stops the disease returning. A stage-two trial found it significantly reduced…
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Take-at-home brain cancer treatment for children will soon be available on NHS | UK News
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Children with brain tumours will soon have access to drugs they can take at home, the NHS has announced. The treatment is a first of its kind and clinical trials have shown it to significantly slow the progression of the disease, allowing children a better quality of life for longer. The treatment is for children…
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Prostate cancer care: Awareness and early detection needed as cases to ‘inevitably’ double by 2040, study finds | World News
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Prostate cancer cases are set to double by 2040, according to researchers who have called on authorities to “take action now” as the rise is “inevitable”. The study by the Lancet Commission on prostate cancer suggests that deaths are expected to double from 1.4 million in 2020 to 2.9 million in 2040 as life expectancy…
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Preventative cancer therapies can cause the disease to ‘hibernate’ and return later, research suggests | UK News
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Preventative treatment designed to stop the recurrence of breast cancer can actually cause the cancer cells to mutate and ‘hibernate’, only to grow again years later, according to new findings. Researchers who set out to explain why breast cancer can return years after initial treatment have found that hormone therapies used to prevent breast cancer…
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Blinatumomab: The new cancer drug helping unwell children that is kinder and more targeted than chemotherapy | UK News
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An 11-year-old boy, who is now free of blood cancer after undergoing a new type of treatment, has told Sky News the drug gave him a “burst of energy”. Arthur D’Hulst had leukaemia but traditional chemotherapy failed to clear it, leaving him very weak, and the side effects were rough. He was offered a new…
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West Yorkshire: How new tech is helping Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust detect cancer sooner | Science & Tech News
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An NHS trust in West Yorkshire is exploiting advances in technology, including artificial intelligence and a surgical robot, to help it meet key cancer targets and ease the wider pressure on its hospitals. Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is meeting three key cancer targets set out by the government. These are a 28-day wait…
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‘Repurposed’ drug that could prevent breast cancer to be offered to nearly 300,000 women | UK News
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A “repurposed” drug that could prevent breast cancer as well as treat it will be offered to almost 300,000 women, NHS officials have revealed. Anastrozole has been used to treat hormone-sensitive breast cancer. But trials have shown it can also stop the disease from occurring in the first place. It’s predicted cases could be cut…
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Cervical cancer treatment breakthrough could cut deaths by 35% | Science & Tech News
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Scientists say already-available drugs could lead to a 35% reduction in deaths caused by cervical cancer, labelling their findings as the biggest breakthrough in treating the disease for over 20 years. Researchers from UCL Cancer Institute and UCLH say a short course of induction chemotherapy (IC) before standard treatment for cervical cancer, chemoradiation (CRT), could…
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More than a million lives saved from cancer in last 40 years | UK News
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More than a million lives have been saved over the last four decades in the UK due to advances in cancer care, analysis from Cancer Research UK has shown. Since the mid-1980s, UK cancer deaths have fallen by around a quarter, but if the rates had remained the same more than 1.2 million people would…
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Aspartame labelled a ‘potential cancer risk’ – so how many cans of Diet Coke are safe to drink? | UK News
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Aspartame, a sweetener commonly found in diet drinks and chewing gum, has been declared a potential cancer risk by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The sweetener has been listed as “possibly carcinogenic to humans”. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the WHO’s cancer research arm, said there was “limited evidence” aspartame caused cancer…