When Jenny* had a mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer, she believed the major surgery to remove her breast, although traumatic, had saved her life. She described feeling “rage” when at a follow-up appointment three years later, she said… Read More »‘Overdiagnosis’: some breast cancer treatments may have been unnecessary, study suggests
Doctors caring for cancer patients at the main hospital in Tigray say they have only two chemotherapy drugs left in date and are treating terminally ill people with expired medication and paracetamol. Eighteen months of war have left the sickest… Read More »‘I saw an oncologist cry’: Tigray cancer patients sent home to die for lack of drugs
New cases of melanoma are set to increase by 50% globally by 2040, with a 68% increase in deaths, according to new research. An international team of researchers have analysed the global burden of melanoma, which accounts for approximately one… Read More »Global melanoma rate to increase by 50% by 2040, researchers predict
Women with genes that predispose them to endometriosis also have a higher risk of developing certain ovarian cancers, new research suggests. A study of genetic markers in nearly 15,000 women with endometriosis and more than 25,000 women with ovarian cancer… Read More »Women with genes for endometriosis have higher risk of ovarian cancer
On the oncology ward at Chernihiv children’s hospital, patients are battling cancer, their city is surrounded by Russian forces, and now they are running out of painkillers and stockpiling food. “We don’t know how much time we have,” said Serhiy… Read More »‘We don’t know how to survive here’: a cancer ward for Ukrainian children under siege
When Claire Simpson turned 50 in early 2020, she received a letter telling her to get a mammogram. Then the pandemic hit, and Victoria went into lockdown. “Like many people, I put it off until we were coming out of… Read More »Delayed diagnoses and self-imposed lockdown: Australians living with cancer during Covid
One of the most serious impacts of cancer is the sudden loss of weight, appetite, and muscle that can hit some patients in the later stages of the disease. This wasting syndrome is known as cachexia and it can be… Read More »How DNA link could unlock mystery of cancer patients ‘wasting away’
Two of the first human patients to be treated with a revolutionary therapy that engineers immune cells to target specific types of cancer still possess cancer-killing cells a decade later with no sign of their illness returning. The finding suggests… Read More »First patients of pioneering CAR T-cell therapy ‘cured of cancer’
Scientists are developing a “revolutionary” test to predict a woman’s risk of four cancers using a single sample collected during cervical screening. Using cervical cells from a routine smear test, experts may be able to spot ovarian and breast cancer… Read More »Scientists developing single test to detect risk of four cancers in women
“We must learn to live with Covid in the same way we have to live with flu,” Sajid Javid told the nation this week. For most people, the parallel with flu is now valid: vaccinations and acquired immunity have defanged… Read More »‘More people will die’: fears for clinically vulnerable as England axes plan B