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Anne Li This week, Cancer Research UK’s News Digest gives us updates on diagnosis delays, staff shortages, questions, causes of cancer, HPV, cancer survivors, advances in medicine and technology, and finally…. mobile phones? See original article at: https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2017/12/23/news-digest-diagnosis-delays-cervical-cancer-deaths-what-is-cancer-and-mobile-phones/...

Anne Li As 2017 comes to an end, Cancer Research UK gives us highlights of the year: cutting smoke rates, tackling obesity, staff shortages, tobacco control plan, general election campaigning, sugar tax, cigarette packaging, and Brexit. See original article at: https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2017/12/21/our-2017-cancer-policy-highlights-local-national-and-international/...

Anne Li It’s been another busy year in cancer research and with so much remarkable work going on it made picking our research highlights for 2017 a tough task. At Cancer Research UK, patients are at the heart of what they do, so it makes sense to ask one of…...

Anne Li Applying low frequency electric fields to the scalp of people with an aggressive type of brain tumour improves survival, according to a clinical trial. Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the say their device offers “promising results” in the trial. The device delivers low-intensity…...

Anne Li The National Cancer Diagnosis Audit (NCDA) found that more than 7 in 10 cancer patients first reported symptoms at the GP surgery, or during a GP home visit. Less than 1 in 10 first presented at A&E. The good news is that many patients who were first seen…...

Anne Li This week, Cancer Research UK gives us updates on cigarettes, treatment for advanced breast cancer, obesity, lymphoma, nanoparticles, drugs for stopping alcohol consumption, ‘Heat-not-burn’ tobacco products, and finally…. artificial intelligence? See original article at: https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2017/12/16/news-digest-health-warning-on-cigarettes-nanoparticles-heat-not-burn-tobacco-and-artificial-intelligence/...

Anne Li Tommy asked Cancer Research UK: “Does having had one type of cancer (and cured) make you more susceptible to getting any other type?” To begin answering this question, you have to know the difference between second cancers, which this relates to, and secondary cancers. Second cancers are those…...

Anne Li Cancer Research UK announced on Friday, December 15th, the signing of a five-year drug-discovery collaboration between its subsidiary, Cancer Research Technology (CRT), and Celgene Corporation, to discover, develop and commercialise new anti-cancer treatments. This arrangement represents an expansion of Cancer Research Technology’s theme-based translational model that now encompasses…...

Anne Li Four in 10 patients with aggressive lymphoma were cancer-free 15 months after treatment with engineered immune cells, according to new US clinical trial results. The study involved 108 patients with large B cell lymphoma who didn’t respond to standard treatment. Around 6 in 10 patients were alive 15…...

Anne Li Young people are less likely to try cigarettes with the printed health warning ‘Smoking kills’ on each stick than standard cigarettes, according to a new study by Cancer Research UK published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Researchers wanted to examine new, innovative ways to reinforce health messages around…...