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Why Are More Young People Getting Cancer?

Scientists are actively investigating a range of suspects, ultra-processed foods, "forever chemicals" (PFAS), antibiotic use, air pollution, gut bacteria, and even weedkillers have all been proposed.

Complete Tumour Regression In Novel Brain Cancer Treatment Model

Breakthrough treatment achieved striking tumour regression in a model for Glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive type of brain cancer.

The Cancer Treatment That Sounds Like Science Fiction , But Isn't

Immunotherapy: the approach of turbocharging the body's own immune system to hunt down and destroy cancer, is having a genuine moment. After more than a century of painstaking research, it is finally delivering results that oncologists describe with barely concealed emotion.

Scientists Develop New Way To Determine Which Patients Will Respond Best To Bowel Cancer Treatment

Scientists have developed an AI-powered method that could determine which patients with advanced bowel cancer are most likely to respond to a targeted drug used on the NHS – potentially sparing thousands of patients from treatments that won’t work for them.

£2.5 Million Investment Boosts Pioneering Cancer Research

York researchers have received £2.5m to help transform future care for people diagnosed with blood cancers. The Funding will help researchers expand their understanding of how people are diagnosed and treated.

New Life-giving Brain Cancer Clinical Trials To Be Offered To People In Sheffield

New ground-breaking clinical trials designed to improve survival and quality of life will be available in Sheffield for people with glioblastoma, the most common type of brain cancer.

How Do Cancer Cells ‘Learn’ To Resist Treatment?

Researchers at NYU Langone Health propose a model that could explain how cancer cells adapt to environmental stress, an approach that may lead to new therapies.

Understanding Cancer’s Hidden Vulnerabilities 

Taken together, the findings highlight how cancer cells exploit crosstalk between chromatin regulation and RNA processing to gain growth advantages, and how those same connections may expose new vulnerabilities.

New Drug Shields Heart, Boosts Cancer Treatment

Researchers has developed a cardio-oncology drug that protects the heart from chemotherapy damage while enhancing the effectiveness of cancer treatments against tumour growth and spread.

Manchester To Offer New Clinical Trials For Deadly Brain Cancer With No Breakthrough In 20 Years

Groundbreaking new clinical trials will be offered to patients living with an aggressive type of brain cancer in Manchester.

Reviving The Frozen Brain: How Scientists Are Getting Closer To Real Cryosleep

Cryosleep for humans is still distant, but the direction is becoming clearer. Instead of being purely speculative, it is now a technical problem being solved step by step.

Defining AGI: DeepMind’s 10 Traits That Could Measure Intelligence

Artificial general intelligence has long been discussed as the point where machines reach human level intelligence, yet the concept has remained vague and difficult to measure.