Illustration: Andrew Khosravani The prestigious science magazine Nature has just published an article by Michaael Eisenstein about the cancer tumour suppressing protein p53 which anyone interested in cancer suppression should read: Nature Meet the anti-cancer protein p53 acts for us all as our guardian of the genetic material present in our cells, (genome), by providing…
The Scottish Medicines Consortium, (SMC), has announced it will fund the drug Tucatinib to treat women with breast cancer who had failed to respond to other medications and had seen theircancer return. We hope and expect that the drug will now be approved by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, (NICE) across the…
Every year many thousands of women across the world will be diagnosed with Cervical Cancer. And nearly a third of women diagnosed will die from this disease. In emerging areas of Africa and Asia where cervical tests are unavailable, a Cervical Cancer diagnosis is effectively a death sentence. Screenings through relevant country early detection programmes for…
Researchers at University College London have admitted defeat in their two-decade long trial to save lives. The trials involved 200,000 people over two decades to detect Ovarian cancer through annual bloodtests. Ovarian cancer is difficult to diagnose because symptoms are frequently mistaken for less serious and often vague problems, such as feeling bloated, feeling full…