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Analysis Reveals A Rise In Colorectal Cancer Among Young Adults In Germany, But Still Below US Levels

Colorectal cancer is generally considered a disease of older adults. However, a new analysis of German cancer registries shows that the number of new colorectal cancer cases among younger adults has risen slightly over the past two decades.

Why Breast Cancer Is Harder To Treat Than We Thought

A new scientific publication is calling for a shift in how researchers and clinicians think about breast cancer, not as one disease, but as a moving target that can change and adapt over time.

Immunotherapy Shows Long-Term Promise In Aggressive Lymphoma

A leading-edge immunotherapy may extend survival for patients with one of the most aggressive forms of blood cancer, according to newly published five-year results from a major clinical trial in the journal Blood.

Immunotherapy Injection Shrinks Tumours In Patients With Recurrent And/or Metastatic Head And Neck Cancer

A targeted cancer treatment given via a simple injection under the skin shrank tumours in more than one third of patients with recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck cancer whose disease has stopped responding to standard treatments.

New Funding To Expand Landmark Blood Cancer Research

A University of Liverpool-led research team has been awarded more than £475,000 from Blood Cancer UK to continue and expand UNCOVER, one of the largest blood cancer data research programmes in the world.

Novel IL1RAP Therapy Advances Toward Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trial

Blocking IL1RAP, a receptor that sits at a key control point in inflammatory signaling, can disrupt the tumor-driven inflammatory network that helps pancreatic cancer resist treatment, according to new research.

Why More Under-50s Are Being Diagnosed With Cancer Than Earlier Generations

Faster ageing among young adults could explain why more under-50s are getting cancer, researchers have said.

Thousands Of Men With Prostate Cancer Will Now Be Offered High-powered Radiotherapy On The NHS

"Treating patients in a fraction of the time is a game-changer – they can spend less time in hospital and travelling to appointments, whilst still receiving highly effective treatment."

Cancer Jab Can Eradicate Entire Tumours In Patients, Trial Shows

Jab brought ‘unprecedentedly strong responses’ in patients whose disease had become resistant to chemotherapy and immunotherapy

Rare Meteorite Proves Our Solar System Almost Had An Extra Planet

The solar system we live in today is not the one that formed 4.5 billion years ago. At least one other planet existed back then, and a rare meteorite is our first physical proof.

How Fast Are You Aging? New Genetic Clock May Have The Answer

A huge analysis of gene expression across species revealed genetic hallmarks of aging and could accelerate anti-aging treatments.

The Battery Metal That Powers The World Has A Problem. MIT Thinks It's Found The Fix.

Glass etching cream, the kind sold in ordinary home improvement shops, also dissolves silica, using ammonium fluoride, a far milder compound. If it could etch glass at room temperature, could it eat through lithium-rich rock?