The name He Jiankui is not listed as a registered delegate for the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, which is to be held…
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Pioneering NHS trial targets brain tumours before surgery
The NHS has begun a world-first clinical trial of a pioneering treatment technique aimed at extending the lives of people with brain tumours. A team…
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A revolutionary surgical knife that “smells tumours” can diagnose womb cancer within seconds, researchers have found in a breakthrough that could enable thousands of healthy…
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The world’s first vaccine to treat deadly cancerous brain tumours can potentially give patients years of extra life, a global clinical trial has concluded. A…
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Doctors have told health services to prepare for a new era of cancer screening after a study found a simple blood test could spot multiple…
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Scientists have uncovered how air pollution causes lung cancer in groundbreaking research that promises to rewrite our understanding of the disease. The findings outline how…
View More Cancer breakthrough is a ‘wake-up’ call on danger of air pollutionNew ‘Parp inhibitors’ could prevent certain tumours appearing
Sue Hayward was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2017. Doctors acted swiftly and she was given a hysterectomy followed by sessions of chemotherapy. But…
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It seemed a bit of a joke at the time – that I should have my own brain scanned. I should have known better. I…
View More How brain surgeon Henry Marsh went from doctor to patient: ‘I blurted out the question we all ask – how long have I got?’Rectal cancer: researchers hail ‘breakthrough’ experimental treatment
Every patient treated for rectal cancer with an experimental immunotherapy drug went into remission, in findings that researchers have hailed as a breakthrough. All 14…
View More Rectal cancer: researchers hail ‘breakthrough’ experimental treatmentDoes turmeric’s reputation translate into real health benefits?
While Kamal Patel was probing through the reams of user data on examine.com – a website that calls itself “the internet’s largest database of nutrition…
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