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Anne Li
This week, Cancer Research UK's News Digest gives us updates on blood tests, junk food ads, collaborations, snapshots, invasive breast cancer, reassuring reminders, prostate cancer, smokers, reconstructive surgery, blood cancer, and finally.... a "gene test for all"?
See original article at: https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2018/01/20/news-digest-cancer-blood-test-junk-food-ads-science-snapshots-and-gene-tests-for-all/
Anne Li
Cancer Research UK’s Commercial Partnerships Team and The Institute of Cancer Research, London, announced a multi-project collaboration and licensing deal with Merck, a leading science and technology company, to discover and develop new anticancer drugs. This multi-project deal follows previous single…
Anne Li
Teenagers who watch more than three hours of commercial TV a day are more likely to eat hundreds of extra junk food snacks, according to a report by Cancer Research UK. Being bombarded by TV ads for unhealthy, high calorie food…
Anne Li
It seems obvious that advertising unhealthy food and drink leads to people eating and drinking more of it. UK businesses wouldn’t have spent an estimated £21 billion on ads in 2016 if they didn’t work. But it’s difficult to know exactly…
"We can. I can." —— 2018 World Cancer Day
Dear AFCR supporters:
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, responsible for 8.8 million deaths per year. However, we know that more than one third of these deaths are preventable, and if detected…
Author: Elaine Schattner
I expect progress. Here’s my list of major trends and issues that will affect the lives of cancer patients in 2018:
1. Less chemotherapy
A recent report finds that among patients with the most common form of early-stage breast cancer, chemotherapy…
Anne LI 1/5/18
New understandings of how molecules affect the activity of an enzyme could lead to potential targets for the treatment of cancers and neurodegenerative…