Promising trial results show that cancer immunotherapies, which empower patients’ immune systems to eliminate tumours, are revolutionising cancer treatment.
A blood test already available to GPs in the UK is more predictive of ovarian cancer than previously thought and could also help pick up other forms of cancer, according to Cambridge researchers.
Gold nanotubes – tiny hollow cylinders one thousandth the width of a human hair – could be used to treat mesothelioma, a type of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos, according to a team of researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Leeds.
Serena Nik-Zainal, a Cancer Research UK clinician scientist, is calling on people across Cambridgeshire to join her and cook up a fundraising feast for Stand Up To Cancer.
The first comprehensive study of DNA changes in healthy and diseased human bladder tissue has revealed that ‘cancer-driving’ mutations are common in healthy bladder tissue.