UK Cancer diagnoses for Breast Cancer fell alarmingly during the summer. At the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic thousands of routine operations, scans and appointments were cancelled. Patients were later scared to visit hospitals for a mammogram screening for fear of catching the virus. In consequence of this screening and diagnosis pause due to the…
Immunotherapy is not a new approach for the treatment of cancer. Over a century ago William Coley observed beneficial effects in certain cancer patients1 after injecting them with a mixture of Streptococcus pyogenes and Serratia marcescens (Coley’s toxin) to boost the immune system, about which little was known at that time.
Photo Pixabay. The ongoing Corvid-19 pandemic continues to present the underfunded NHS with two major problems for cancer patients. Health Services are both challenged to offer them the care and compassion they need and also to shield them from the heightened risk of life-threatening infection. Research into cancer prevention and treatment has been halted, with clinical…
A team of British and American scientists have discovered a way to slow the growth of breast cancer stem cells in the lab. The study led by Dr Bruno Simões and Professor Rob Clarke from The University of Manchester could eventually lead to combination drug therapies on previously untreatable breast cancers.