Anne Li                                  6/9/17   Globally, an estimated 71 million people are living with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV). Over decades of infection, chronic HCV infection results in progressive damage to the liver and an…...

Anne Li                                       6/9/17   Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are working on a new treatment for an aggressive type of leukemia that outperforms standard chemotherapies. Lead researcher Dr Nadine…...

Anne Li                          6/9/17   The chemotherapy drug capecitabine gives patients a better quality of life and is as effective at preventing breast cancer from returning as the alternative regimen called CMF, when given following epirubicin. These are the…...

Anne LI                              6/9/17   Two drugs targeting different gene faults in lung cancer have shown potential to be better than those already available, according to unpublished clinical trials. The drug alectinib (Alecensa), which targets a faulty…...

Anne Li                               6/9/17   In 2012, the drug abiraterone (Zytiga) was first made available on the NHS to treat men with advanced prostate cancer that has stopped responding to standard hormone treatment. Now, a strong…...

Anne Li                                    6/9/17   During the past week, the world has lost one of its leading cancer researchers- Professor Patrick Johnston. Here Sir Harpal Kumar, Cancer Research UK's chief executive commemorates the legacy…...

Anne LI                                     6/9/17   A drug that’s already approved to treat certain ovarian cancers holds some advanced breast cancers at bay longer than standard chemotherapy, according to results from a clinical trial.…...