British scientists have been equipped with a new warchest to fight one of cancer’s most complex and lethal killers. An £18 million fund is now available to “ambitious” groups studying
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A breast cancer screening error affecting 450,000 women may have led to hundreds of lives being cut short, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has revealed. Mr Hunt told the Commons that
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Chemotherapy for one of the deadliest forms of breast cancer can be personalised and improved with genetic testing, new research suggests. Women with aggressive “triple-negative” disease fare much better on
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A terminally ill man is to begin an Appeal Court challenge against a “blanket ban” on assisted dying. Motor neurone disease sufferer Noel Conway, who says he feels “entombed” by
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Specialist cancer nurses are being “run ragged”, with high vacancy rates meaning patients may not be receiving the level of specialist care they need, a report has suggested. Macmillan Cancer
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Cancer researchers in the UK are to benefit from an app which crunches data while smartphone owners sleep. The DreamLab app, developed by the Vodafone Foundation, uses the collective power
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Large swathes of people have “mythical” beliefs when it comes to the causes of cancer, a new study suggests. Members of the public incorrectly identify stress, food additives, genetically modified
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A cancer patient caught up in the Windrush scandal will be granted indefinite leave to remain, Labour MP Chuka Umunna has revealed. But he described the man’s treatment by the
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Only one in seven women who are at high risk of breast cancer are taking a preventative drug, a new study suggests. Researchers found that six in seven women with
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Exercise could increase the risk of developing motor neurone disease (MND), research suggests. People who are physically active are more likely to go on to suffer from the condition, with
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