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Anne Li                               2/3/17   Giving smokers personalised information about their risk of ill health can double the chance of them using NHS Stop Smoking Services, and improve their chance of quitting. The “promising” findings are…...

Anne Li                                    2/3/17   A large analysis of cervical tumour samples has found distinct genetic ‘signatures’ that could better define the disease. The study, by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network and…...

Anne Li                        2/3/17   A combination of two chemotherapy drugs – gemcitabine and capecitabine – should be the new standard of care for pancreatic cancer patients who have had surgery to remove their tumour, according to a Cancer Research UK-funded study published in…...

Anne Li                                     2/3/17   The Scottish Government has said it will publish a new strategy on diet and obesity in 2017, and as part of our Scale Down Cancer campaign we want to make sure that…...

Anne Li                               2/3/17   This week, Cancer Research UK's News Digest gives us updates on live from inside the human body, a DNA-analysing smartphone attachment, a ‘huge leap’ in prostate cancer testing and… ‘Know your…...

Anne Li                         2/3/17   Using an MRI scan to help diagnose prostate cancer could spare some men from unnecessary invasive biopsies, according to a new study. The technique could also help spot the difference between aggressive prostate cancers…...

Anne Li                                  1/29/17   Working in the sun could lead to one death and around five new cases of melanoma skin cancer a week. Construction workers had the highest number of deaths (44% of…...

Anne Li                              1/29/17   Ximbio, a non-profit online one-stop-shop for the global life science community to share research resources, has opened its first North American headquarters in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. This marks an expansion for…...

Anne LI                             1/29/17   When a ‘space-age cure’ for cancer that’s ‘truly transformative’ and a ‘huge leap forward’ hits the headlines, it’s going to catch people’s eyes. And that was the case for one study –…...