Cancer patients could get living ‘avatars’ to help treat their tumours, says new study

Cancer patients could get living ‘avatars’ to help treat their tumours, says new study

ByMatthew Betteridge

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…

Waiting lists for routine NHS treatment such as hip and knee surgery longest for a decade

Waiting lists for routine NHS treatment such as hip and knee surgery longest for a decade

ByMatthew Betteridge

Waiting lists for routine NHS treatment such as hip and knee surgery are at their highest for a decade, official figures have show An estimated four million people were waiting to be seen by a specialist at the end of June, the first time the figure has been exceeded since 2007. Experts said the milestone marked a…