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

Posted in Medicine, Science on 29th Apr, 2026
by Alexander Muller

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

Posted in Medicine, Science, Software on 23rd Apr, 2026
by Alexander Muller

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

Posted in Medicine, Science on 23rd Apr, 2026
by Alexander Muller

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

Posted in Medicine, Science on 23rd Apr, 2026
by Alexander Muller

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?

Posted in Medicine, Science on 20th Apr, 2026
by Alexander Muller

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.