Multi-award winning Isle of Wight based design studio, Brightbulb Design have announced a yearly charity scheme and have nominated us, the Caring Cancer Trust as their charity for this financial year. Brightbulb who have supported us for a number of years will take part in and hold events across the year to help us raise…
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Photo courtesy American Heart Association The majority of patients with the most common type of breast cancer do not benefit from chemotherapy after surgery according to a comprehensive study. A decade long multi-center study by the ECOG-ACRIN Research Group, involving 10,273 women with early-stage cancer at 1,182 treatment sites across USA, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New…
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Photo courtesy NCI The US National Cancer Institute’s , ((NCI), development of a novel approach to immunotherapy, reported in the June issue of Nature Medicine, has been given wide coverage in the British press. It is an important step forward in our understanding of cancer mutation and treatment. The complex trial approach was in fact…
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Studies of a blood test for 10 different types of cancers show promise as an early cancer screening process before patients show symptoms, Dr Eric Klein from the Taussig Cancer Institute of Cleveland, USA, told members at the annual conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists, (ASCO), in Chicago last week. The blood test,…
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