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Scientists identify drugs to target 'Achilles heel' of Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia cells
6/09/2016
New research, by the Universities of Glasgow and Manchester, has revealed an 'Achilles heel' of Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) and found drugs to successfully target this weakness and eradicate...
Lung cancer breath 'signature' presents promise for earlier diagnosis
6/09/2016
Simple, affordable breath test may give more patients a better chance for cure.
Lung cancer patients who have surgery live longer
6/09/2016
But fewer patients with advanced lung cancer are having surgery.Patients with late-stage, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have surgery have better survival rates than those who don't, but...
Use of glucocorticoids is associated with increased risk of serious bacterial blood infection
6/09/2016
The risk of life-threatening blood infections by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria is more than doubled in users of systemic glucocorticoids compared with non-users.
New study lays groundwork for potential new anti-cancer therapy
6/09/2016
Identifying the cell of origin is crucial to understanding how a tumor develops and metastasizes and for developing targeted therapies.
Landmark study shows that Acute Myeloid Leukaemia is at least 11 different diseases
6/09/2016
Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their international collaborators have shown that Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) is not a single disorder, but at least 11 different diseases...
Lignin from plants boosts the effectiveness of sunscreen
6/08/2016
Warm weather means beach vacations and pool-dipping for many of us. It also signals a season of slathering on sunscreen to avoid getting burned.
Dermatology: Natural killer cells have a memory
6/08/2016
Researchers at the University of Bonn and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich have decoded a new mechanism of how the immune system can specifically attack pigmented cells of the skin.
Early detection, smaller cancer among benefits of skin cancer screening at primary care visits
6/08/2016
Skin cancer screenings performed by primary care physicians (PCPs) during routine office visits improve the detection of potentially deadly melanomas and find them in earlier stages, according to...
Bubbly drinks inspire more effective cancer treatment
6/08/2016
Cancer Research UK scientists are developing a bubbly drink packed with oxygen microbubbles to make treatments more potent for hard to treat tumours like pancreatic cancer.