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Personalised cancer care for majority whose genes were sequenced, study finds
Whole genome sequencing could help identify new treatment recommendations for cancer patients.
- Published: 7 November 2024
New trial to improve treatment for children with rare bone cancer
The University of Birmingham’s Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit is leading a new trial to improve outcomes for patients with Ewing Sarcoma.
- Published: 5 November 2024
State-of-the-art facilities in Birmingham used to advance radiation therapy research
Researchers investigating how best to use alternative radiotherapies, potentially more effective with fewer side effects for some cancers, given funding boost.
- Published: 30 October 2024
Protein involved in balancing DNA replication and restarting found
USP50 protein helps balance nuclease and helicase activity during critical processes
- Published: 14 October 2024
Childhood cancer experts call for population screening
Childhood cancer experts call for population screening
- Published: 9 October 2024
Most accurate ultrasound test could detect 96% of women with ovarian cancer
Head-to-head study of diagnostic test accuracy found IOTA ultrasound ADNEX model best sensitivity and acceptable specificity
- Published: 1 October 2024
New funding to better understand causes of rare cancers and their responses to targeted therapy
A recent Experimental Medicine Award will allow researchers to learn more about the genetic and epigenetic causes of cancer, through an existing trial.
- Published: 23 September 2024
Using vaccine developments accelerated by the pandemic to treat cancer
Dr Shivan Sivakumar explains how mRNA vaccines help us treat cancer, as we open Europe’s first site for pancreatic cancer vaccine trial.
- Published: 12 September 2024