Category: Cancer – Types and Treatments

Hops, the cone-shaped buds that give beer its distinctive taste, have been known for hundreds of years to have health benefits in their own right.

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.