From Dr Ian Hampson, PhD University of Manchester Viral Oncology Laboratories, Institute of Cancer Studies. In my 30 years of cancer research I would be a wealthy man if I had a pound for every time I have been asked when is there going to be a breakthrough! The answer to this question is complex…
Research findings have at last confirmed that a diet containing a handful of so-called ‘superfoods’ can defeat prostate cancer. The findings were presented to the annual conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology on 3 June by Professor Robert Thomas, consultant oncologist at Addenbrooke Hospital, Cambridge. It involved 203 men with prostate cancer. It…
FromDr Ian N. Hampson & Dr Lynne Hampson University of Manchester Viral Oncology Laboratories, Institute of Cancer Studies. In the UK approximately 500 children are diagnosed with leukaemia every year which makes this the most common childrens cancer with roughly 80% of these being of the type called acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Although in recent years…
People with breast, bowel and ovarian cancers, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, are now twice as likely to survive for at least 10 years than in the 1970s, although there is still much work to do. In breast cancer, 10-year survival in breast cancer has jumped from less than 40% to a predicted 77% currently, while half…