This article was taken from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41318417 A life-extending lung cancer drug will be made immediately available to NHS patients in England, say advisers. Campaigners, including the late Sunday Times restaurant critic AA Gill, have repeatedly called for access to the pioneering immunotherapy, which can add months to life. Scotland already offers nivolumab to people with advanced…
Macmillan Cancer Support says one in two people will get a cancer diagnosis. Yet our treatment still focuses on the disease, not the person’s specific needs “I need you to see this patient now,” a nurse whispers, her quiet tone masking a mountain of concern. “I am an oncologist,” I introduce myself to the stricken…
THE search for a cancer cure has take a major leap forward after experts discovered a process to trigger the death of cancer cells could be more effective than current methods. The new method of killing cancer cells – called Caspase Independent Cell Death (CICD), led to the complete eradication of tumours in experimental models. Currently most…
Zebrafish could be used to host human cancers, allowing tests to find the best drugs to use on tumours which are all different and can evolve Cancer patients could be given living ‘avatars’ to enable doctors to test different kinds of drugs to find an effective treatment. Researchers in Portugal said they had demonstrated for…