Cancers Engaged in Evolutionary Arms Race with Immune System
'- Aggressive stomach and gullet cancers evolve escape routes under selective pressure from immune system - Findings underline importance of cancer evolution, and could help...
Tag: cancer
Cancer Research Offers More Hope Than People Think
· Only 28 per cent of people believe cancers can be controlled long term – yet the average patient now lives more than 10 years...
Life Extending Cancer Drug will not be made Available to all Patients in Scotland
Sarcoma UK is disappointed to see that life extending cancer drug trabectedin (Yondelis) will not be made available routinely on the NHS to sarcoma patients...
Queen’s University Belfast Awarded Research Grant to Improve Bone Marrow Cancer Treatment
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have received the first scientific research grant from MDS UK to improve treatment for Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS), a type of...
Immunotherapy Backed as Standard First-line Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer
Immunotherapy pembrolizumab keeps some patients alive for three years or more Pembrolizumab either used alone or in combination with chemotherapy was more effective than a...
And Life Goes On
It is a while since I have written a blog. My disease has been stable for just over a year now and I have focused...
Inaugural London Global Cancer Week
The inaugural London Global Cancer Week will launch at the Royal Society of Medicine on Monday 25 November. The week-long series of discussions and events...
New Evolution-busting Drug Overcomes Resistance in Aggressive Breast Cancers
A new type of drug that blocks one of cancer’s key evolutionary escape routes from chemotherapy could be used to treat aggressive breast cancers, a...
Gut Bacteria “Fingerprint” Predicts Radiotherapy Side Effects
· First clinical study to show link between types of gut bacteria and radiotherapy-induced gut damage · Studying patients’ bacterial fingerprint could help predict, prevent...
Light Activated Metal Catalyst Destroys Cancer Cells’ Vital Energy Source
New Iridium compounds effective towards killing cancer cells even without the presence of oxygen – expanding the range of tumours that can be targeted When...
