The EPA’s Data Bank on Cancer Risk From Air Pollution Has Gone Dark
For decades, communities have relied on the agency’s cancer risk estimates to hold polluters accountable. This year, it’s missing.
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Lucy Davis urges women to check their breasts for cancer – here’s how
The actress from The Office TV series says her breast lump was tiny and not a ‘lump’ as such; rather a kind of hard spot.
The importance of patients – the decade long effort to create next-gen cancer models
Dr Maria Antoinetta Cerone takes us through a decade-long international effort to create a bank of patient-derived cancer models…
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Cancer quackery: Under MAHA, everything old is new again
A viral Instagram post claims that cancer is not a disease, but rather a defense mechanism against “toxins.” Everything old is new again under MAHA.
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Cancer in motion: how computation is reshaping our view of tumours
Computational cancer biologist Dr Maria Secrier tells us why she no longer wants to simply measure cancer, but model its possible futures…
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Breast cancer checks missing most women under 50 who are at risk, says study
Up to 95% of younger women who are at higher risk of developing breast cancer are being missed by current NHS checks, researchers warn.
NHS inviting 500,000 men to join major prostate cancer research programme
The NHS will begin contacting half a million men from this week inviting them to join a major research programme to improve early detection and…
Landmark NHS approval of cancer drugs offers new hope for children and adults with rare blood cancers
Infants and young children are among hundreds of patients set to receive new life-saving drugs for rare blood cancers. Around 200 patients a year will…
Cancer patients rate NHS care highly as record numbers checked and treated
Tens of thousands of cancer patients have rated the care they received from the NHS as nearly 9 out of 10, as NHS teams see and treat record numbers of people…