Cancer

UK Government offer home testing kits for cervical cancer

As part of the 10 Year Health Plan, the UK Government has announced it will offer home-testing kits for cervical cancer screenings.

Safer and faster recovery to be expected from robot-assisted surgery

Robot-assisted surgery cut hospital recovery time down by 20%, according to a clinical trial used to perform bladder cancer removal.

Former cancer patients not more likely to die from COVID

A study finds that former cancer patients are not more likely to die from COVID than non-cancer patients, if they aren't having active treatment.

Individualised Multimodal Immunotherapy beyond personalised medicine for brain cancer

Stefaan Van Gool, MD, PhD brings to light the important role of Individualised Multimodal Immunotherapy in improving the survival of brain cancer.

NHS patients face “postcode lottery” for fertility freezing treatments

Access to fertility freezing treatments is becoming more scarce, as UK policy guidelines on fertility preservation are rigorous and NHS funding is “variable”.

Fighting against a Covid tide to deliver cancer referral innovation

PinPoint Data Science is working with the NHS to deliver much needed innovation in cancer referral pathways

“Inadequate” UK cancer services risk late diagnosis for patients

According to a report, more than 340,000 cancer patients could face late diagnosis - due to NHS staff shortages.

Scientific sunburn & skin cancer (Part 2)

Chanda Siddoo-Atwal continues the discussion about scientific sunburn & skin cancer focusing on sunscreens that prevent scientific sunburn (apoptosis).

First case of woman cured from HIV, after dual stem-cell transplant

The first ever woman cured from HIV underwent a dual stem-cell transplant, which seems to have made her genetically resistant to HIV and put her cancer into remission.

Cytomegalovirus & glioblastoma: Solving the riddle

Sean Lawler, Associate Professor at Brown University, explains solving the riddle when it comes to the cytomegalovirus virus and the lethal brain tumour, glioblastoma.

Visualising genomic instability in cancer

Sabine Mai and Aline Rangel-Pozzo from CancerCare Manitoba Research Institute, The University of Manitoba, explore how 3D imaging and quantitative analysis provide key insights into genomic instability.

Therapeutic feline and canine cancer vaccine

Here we learn from Biljana Stangeland, PhD, Executive Director, Chief Scientific Officer and Co-founder at Alv B AS, about exciting new developments in therapeutic feline and canine cancer vaccine.

A new wave of molecular cancer therapeutics

Hernando Lopez-Bertoni, explores the new wave of molecular cancer therapeutics and states the case for learning the mechanisms as a pro, so one can target them as an artist.

TheraVision: An oncolytic virus platform technology for a personalised virus-immunotherapy

Prof Dr Susanne M Bailer, Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB, explains the possibilities of an oncolytic virus platform technology.

Medical cannabis & the future of cancer treatments   

Dr Stephen Barnhill MD, CEO of Apollon Formularies Plc, examines medical cannabis and the future of cancer treatments across the UK and the European healthcare sectors.

Drug with the ability to reprogramme aggressive brain tumours 

Study shows L-methylfolate, when administered alongside standard therapy for glioblastomas, changed the DNA process within a patients tumour

Ultrasounds to detect prostate cancer are highly successful 

An ultrasound can diagnose most prostate cancer cases in men with great accuracy – only missing 3.4% of severe cases.

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