Artificial intelligence will be used to help stop 22,000 cancer deaths a year by 2033, Theresa May will say in a speech setting out how science can transform health. Medical
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The Government is “losing control of cancer care”, with waiting times for treatment soaring over the past eight years, Labour has said. Research carried out by the party found that
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Prue Leith has shared her backing for assisted dying after watching her own brother endure a “very painful, miserable death”. The Great British Bake Off judge has revealed she is
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Women and their families caught up in the breast screening failure have demanded answers as to how hundreds of patients may have had their lives cut short. Health Secretary Jeremy
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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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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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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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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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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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