Scientists at the University of Illinois have built ‘micro robots’ that could be guided by light to attack tumours.

Researchers in Germany have shown that a multigene test can identify breast cancer patients who do not need chemotherapy and who have a good chance of surviving five years after diagnosis.

A new combination of two proven breast cancer drugs has either eradicated tumours or shrunk them to ‘barely visible size’ in just 11 days. Doctors in Manchester gave a combination of trastuzumab and lapatinib to 257 women and within 11 days in 11% of the […]

Screening The European Breast Cancer Conference in Amsterdam has heard that thousands of cases of breast cancer are going undetected by the standard screening techniques used by the NHS.