cancer cure
Breakthrough: Scientists engineer virus to kill all types of cancer
This cowpox-style virus is would be injected directly to the tumour, causing it to explode.
US tests gene editing tool for cancer cure
Doctors try CRISPR gene editing for cancer, a 1st in the US.
New drugs being developed to combat cancer
Drugs make headway against lung, breast, prostate cancers.
Scientists cure skin melanoma of mice in trial, train body to stop tumours returning
Treatment works as immunotherapy, using immune system to fight tumour, and also trains body to be able to destroy cancer again.
Breakthrough for ovarian cancer patients: Half of women in trial respond to new drug
Research, lead by team at Institute of Cancer Research in London and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, said the findings show 'promise'.
Novel blood test detects 95 per cent of cancers at any stage of aggressiveness
Scientists hope that the new diagnosis method will allow patients to receive tailored treatments.
Chinese leukaemia patient livestreams journey to pay for cancer treatment
27-year-old native of northern Chinese city of Harbin is helping give human face to struggle for more affordable cancer drugs in China.
Woman cured of advanced breast cancer through immunotherapy in world first
Treatment already works in some people with cancer of the lung, cervix, blood cells (leukaemia), skin (melanoma) and bladder.
Breakthrough in tough-to-treat pancreatic cancer
Chemotherapy treatment folfirinox will become standard for patients whose pancreatic cancer is diagnosed early to be removed surgically.
Extract from waste tea leaves offer hope of lung cancer treatment
Researchers created micro biomarkers called “quantum dots” to improve detection of tumours but found process greatly reduced tumour size.