Global Cancer News
Ancient Chinese medicine unlocks new possibilities for cancer treatment
Source: YaleNews More than 20 years ago, Yale pharmacology professor Yung-Chi Cheng, a leader in drug development for hepatitis B, cancer, and HIV, had a radical idea: What if he could unlock the therapeutic potential of…
Proton therapy as effective as standard radiation with fewer side effects
Cancer patients who receive high-tech proton therapy experience similar cure rates and fewer serious side effects compared with those who undergo traditional X-ray radiation therapy, according to a study led by Washington University School of…
A quarter of cancer patients experience avoidable delay to diagnosis
One in four cancer patients experienced a delay to their diagnosis that could have been avoided, according to a new study by Cancer Research UK. It found that nearly 3,400 of 14,300 patients experienced a delay…
So-called ‘junk DNA’ affects inherited cancer risk
A person’s risk of developing cancer is affected by genetic variations in regions of DNA that don’t code for proteins, previously dismissed as ‘junk DNA’, according to new research published in the British Journal of Cancer. This…
Targeted ovarian cancer drug made more widely available on the NHS in Scotland
A targeted cancer drug has been approved for use on the NHS in Scotland for patients with advanced, newly diagnosed ovarian cancer that’s responded to chemotherapy. Olaparib (Lynparza) tablets will be used to help prolong the…