Scientists have established how bowel cancer turns aggressive, leading the way for potential new drug treatments, it has been revealed.
Researchers in Cardiff and Glasgow are behind a study which showed how a particular protein stimulates tumours, making them more likely to spread.
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Exercise can cut the risk of cancer - but only if followed by a good night's sleep.
A 10-year-study of thousands of women found significantly fewer cases of cancer, including breast cancer, among those who were the most physically active.
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Taking vitamin A and E supplements does not lower your risk of cancer, according to the results of a large clinical trial involving nearly 15,000 men in the US.
Both vitamins are powerful antioxidants - substances that can tackle harmful byproducts of the body's metabolism which can cause DNA damage and hence trigger cancer. However, the study shows that taking the vitamins in supplement form has no effect at all on cancer.
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Cancer drug research is entering a new era which will mean more successful drugs for patients, says a charity.
However, Cancer Research UK called for pharmaceutical firms and academics to be more open about those which do not make the grade.
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A NURSE from Northwich has kicked off a powerful new cancer awareness campaign.
Helen Ferns, Cancer Research UK’s North West senior research and information nurse, launched the ‘Behind Every Success Story’ initiative in Manchester.
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Serious questions are today raised about chemotherapy for seriously ill cancer patients, some of whom die as a result of the drugs they are taking.
An inquiry into more than 600 deaths within 30 days of chemotherapy has found the treatment probably either caused or hastened death in 27% of cases. As a result, the government advisory group on chemotherapy has brought forward its own report.
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For 20 years she lived under a death sentence, having been told that the tumour inside her was terminal cancer.
Mary Stranack believed that her survival against such odds was a miracle. But it wasn't.
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Doctors are being urged to re-think their approach to giving chemotherapy during care at the end of life.
A review of 600 cancer patients who died within 30 days of treatment found that in more than a quarter of cases it actually hastened or caused death.
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Health stories from around the world this week include obese patients getting weight-loss treatment in their lunch hour. Also the use of nitric oxide to heal athlete's foot and a study that shows drinking non-alcoholic beer can reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer
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A technique which literally places a window in a mouse's chest could help scientists unlock cancer's most mysterious and deadly process.
US scientists were able to keep a mouse alive for 21 days with the tiny piece of glass in place.
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Ian Lawrence is a physicist. He taught physics; then he taught physics teachers; now he devises physics courses.\n\nSo he speaks with some authority when he says there are good reasons in physics why proton therapy is a better way of "cooking" cancer cells than conventional radiotherapy.
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Scientists have decoded the entire genome of a cancer patient for the first time, identifying a series of genes to the type of white blood cell cancer that ultimately killed her.
The finding will pave the way for better treatments, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis said.
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Scientists have decoded the complete DNA of a cancer patient and traced her disease to its genetic roots.
The Washington University team identified 10 gene mutations which appeared key to the development of the woman's acute myeloid leukaemia.
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PATIENTS in Cumbria have more cash spent on them for prescription cancer drugs than other areas of the country, new figures show.
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said that figures released under the Freedom of Information Act showed that on average primary care trusts in England spent £390.17 per patient on prescription cancer drugs.
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Cancer patients are facing a "postcode lottery" with some primary care trusts spending more than twice as much as others on prescription cancer drugs, the Tories claimed today.
Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said that figures released under the Freedom of Information Act showed that on average PCT's in England spent £390.17 per patient.
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The Winter Fuel Allowance should be given to all cancer patients in the UK, a charity has said.
Macmillan Cancer Support says 40% of people who come to it for financial aid need help to pay their fuel bills.
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Time-lag in training specialists to meet growing demand means that diagnoses and life-saving treatment are dangerously delayed
Government promises to improve cancer survival rates and reduce hospital superbugs are under threat because of a lack of pathologists, medical experts claimed yesterday. Seriously ill patients are missing out on life-saving treatments because of a shortage of highly trained specialists in some areas, according to the Royal College of Pathologists (RCoP).
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UK scientists have worked out how cancer cells change their shape to spread around the body.
They found that melanoma cells rapidly alternate between a round shape and a more stretchy "elongated" shape to help them move in different environments.
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Thousands of cancer patients are not getting radiotherapy to treat their condition, the Conservatives have claimed.
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Kidney cancer patients will have to wait months for the NHS drugs rationing body to decide if they can have new drugs after guidance was delayed.
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