Overweight women can reduce the risk of contracting breast cancer by losing just 7 pounds, (3.2kilo) according to new study presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium this month. This is a modest weight loss with a significant effect. However if they lose 28 pounds, ((12.7 kilos), that risk is reduced by no less…
Cervical Cancer A decade of non-animal tested cancer research funding by Caring Cancer Trust for the University of Manchester Viral Oncology Laboratories was celebrated at a recent University Philanthropy Circle inauguration. Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, President and Vice Chancellor of the University, is pictured with the Charity Chairman Chris Ody and Hon. Secretary Ian MacWatt.…
The global pharmaceutical industry is worth trillions and spends billions on research to find successful cancer treatments that can be patented and marketed. Unfortunately, the general research impetus sponsored by the pharma industry is not to find preventative drugs for pre-cancerous states, but rather to find curative drugs for cancers that are already active in patients. The reason for this is that it is far cheaper…
A new immunotherapy, (CAR-T) treatment has been developed for advanced leukaemia in children and young adults where prior standard treatment has failed. Dr. Tim Cripe, a specialist oncologist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio, described the experimental therapy CTL019 produced by Swiss pharma company Novartis as “the most exciting thing I’ve seen in my lifetime.”…