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By encouraging patients to adopt preventive lifestyles and have screenings and tests, silent cancers don’t have to be a grave threat to health
Many patients with less aggressive prostate cancer elect active surveillance instead of treatment.
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Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men. Although watchful waiting is appropriate for low-risk cases, many are diagnosed at an advanced stage because of racial health disparities.
The NanoMslide causes potentially cancerous cells to ‘light up’ with vivid colour contrast. It has already been successful in finding early-stage breast cancer cells in human tissue.
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.
A lot of people have spent a very long time wondering what causes cancer – and scientists still can’t say for certain why an individual person might have it.
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I have worked on this problem for many years, and to be honest it still blows my mind to really think about just how complex it is.
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A urine test for ovarian cancer could increase survival rates from 20% to 90%.
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A new way of matching cancer biomarkers in bodily fluids could lead to produce detection technology that doesn’t need expensive labs.
A new test may predict the risk of the most common type of breast cancer spreading to other organs. The effectiveness of…