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Overuse of CT scans could cause 100k extra cancers in US

14 days ago icr.ac.uk health

The Institute of Cancer Research, London have found a way to identify people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) who are at the highest risk of developing bowel cancer.

2 months ago icr.ac.uk cancer disease

Cancer cells pretend to be ‘super fit’ to outsmart normal cells and invade the body

9 months ago icr.ac.uk cancer health

New tool, combining the principles of evolution and AI, predicts prostate cancer recurrence more than a decade ahead

9 months ago icr.ac.uk ai cancer

Over 5,000 genetic variants that enable certain cancers to thrive have been identified by scientists, along with a potential therapeutic target to treat or even prevent these cancers from developing

9 months ago icr.ac.uk cancer genetics

A new type of immunotherapy (CAR-T therapy) that targets non-cancer cells could help prevent the growth and spread of breast cancer tumours

14 months ago icr.ac.uk cancer

Largest study of its kind (n= 547,000 ) suggests that leisure-time physical activity reduces a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer before menopause: women in the top 10% of physical activity levels, were 10% less likely to develop breast cancer before menopause

16 months ago icr.ac.uk cancer

Prostate cancer’s resistance to treatment can be reversed in some patients by stopping hijacked white blood cells from being ‘pulled into’ tumors, according to new research

18 months ago icr.ac.uk cancer

The largest study of its kind identifies 11 new genes linked to aggressive prostate cancer

19 months ago icr.ac.uk cancer

Men with prostate cancer who also had relatives affected by the disease – or by other cancers with an inherited element like breast, ovarian or bowel cancer – were up to a fifth less likely to die from prostate cancer or any cause compared with those with no family history of cancer

2 years ago icr.ac.uk cancer disease

Researchers believe they may have uncovered a new type of cancer cell communication, which enables cells within the same tumour to coordinate cell growth and promote tumour survival

2 years ago icr.ac.uk cancer

Scientists have found non-coding ‘junk’ DNA could potentially contribute to the development of cancer, until now scientists have not understood the underlying mechanism, or how it could contribute to cancer’s developme but now they were able to understand it more completely

2 years ago icr.ac.uk cancer

New evolution-busting drug overcomes resistance in aggressive breast cancers

5 years ago icr.ac.uk

Leading UK scientist reveals likely cause of childhood leukaemia

6 years ago icr.ac.uk