With NHS Trusts cancelling chemotherapy sessions and routine cancer operations to free up beds and nurses for Covid-19 patients, the immediate outlook was bleak for cancer sufferers. The NHS has however now instructed local trusts to make arrangements with immediate effect for cancer sufferers to receive priority chemotherapy and radiotherapy at private sector and clinics…
Amid all the coronavirus gloom and doom, it is a pleasure for us at Stopcancer.health to report some positive news on research unto cancer detection and prevention. A new AI test that can early detect more than 50 types of cancer shows promise in a clinical study led by the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute and the…
We thank the National Cancer Institute for the following information. What is coronavirus, or COVID-19? Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common in people and many different species of animals. Governments across the world are belatedly responding to an outbreak of respiratory disease caused by a novel (new) coronavirus that is now…
Transgene, a biotechnology company based in France, has successfully given a new immunotherapeutic drug to a first person in a Phase 1/2a clinical trial at St. James Hospital, Leeds. The trial tests the drug TG6002 on colorectal cancer patients with inoperable liver metastasis. At the Leeds trial, the new drug was delivered directly into the…