Improved screening and treatment means fewer middle-aged people dying of disease despite rise in casesMore middle-aged people are getting cancer but fewer of them are dying from it thanks to improved detection and better...
Read MoreExclusive: Cancer leaders and oncologists increasingly alarmed at impact of strikes on treatmentThousands of cancer patients could die early if ministers and junior doctors do not urgently resolve their bitter pay row, health...
Read MoreExclusive: Cancer Research UK says toll could be avoided if government tackled health inequalitiesHealth inequalities are causing 33,000 avoidable cases of cancer in the UK every year, a damning analysis suggests.Ministers have...
Read MoreVorasidenib worked in trials but is not yet available on the NHSOn a fine spring day two years ago, Shay Emerton was in good spirits playing for an old pupils’ school football team. There was just 10 minutes of the game to...
Read MoreOncologists sound alarm over risk of healthcare systems buckling due to rising need for specific careThe world must urgently prepare for a global “tsunami” of millions of older cancer patients or risk healthcare...
Read MoreTaking the drug osimertinib once a day after surgery reduces chance of patients dying by 51%, trials showA pill taken once a day cuts the risk of dying from lung cancer by half, according to “thrilling” and...
Read MoreNHS trial results of liquid biopsy indicate Galleri test has potential to spot cancer in people with symptomsA blood test for more than 50 forms of cancer could help speed up diagnosis and fast-track patients for treatment, a...
Read MoreNHS trial results of liquid biopsy suggest Galleri test has potential to spot cancer in people with symptomsA blood test for more than 50 forms of cancer could help speed up diagnosis and fast-track patients for treatment, a...
Read MoreExclusive: MPs say research system unfit for purpose as mother of boy who died calls for answers on ‘missing millions’Ministers have spent only £15m in five years on research into tackling brain tumours, the...
Read MoreDiscovery that extrachromosomal DNA act as cancer-causing genes seen as breakthrough that could lead to new therapiesScientists have pinpointed pieces of DNA which, they say, act like Bond villains in the way they help cancers...
Read MoreConcerns at mesothelioma death rate trigger study to detect exposure to now banned material used in school buildingsThe threat of asbestos-related cancer to female teachers is to be examined after possible signs of an elevated...
Read MoreExclusive: Analysis of 126,000 cases over a decade shows ‘deeply worrying’ racial disparities in NHS wait timesBlack and Asian people in England have to wait longer for a cancer diagnosis than white people, with some...
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