Lightly-browned bacon has less carcinogens than well-cooked bacon.
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People with Barrett’s oesphagus may still want to be especially careful about eating bacon.
Most people with oesophageal cancer are over the age of 60, and it is often only diagnosed in its late stages.
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Researchers have developed a simple way to detect early stage oesophageal cancer using anitbodies in blood.
Liquid biopsy is less invasive than standard biopsy, where a needle is put into a solid tumour to confirm a cancer diagnosis.
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There are currently few effective and non-invasive methods to screen for early stages of cancer. But scientists have now developed a new blood test that promises to detect eight different cancers.
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An early diagnosis can be the difference between living and dying.