3 June 2023
A test based on seven chemicals found in uterine fluid outperformed the leading tool for diagnosing early-stage ovarian cancer – a disease that is usually spotted late and is frequently deadly
31 March 2023
By consuming oxygen near to tumours, the battery makes a class of experimental drugs target oxygen-free cancerous cells more effectively
29 March 2023
The number of people under 50 with cancer is increasing in many countries and for many different tumour types. Why this is occurring isn't entirely clear, but it may be due to some aspects of modern life
13 March 2023
A drug that is commonly used to treat chronic myeloid leukaemia stopped the most common type of breast cancer cells from dividing after they had spread to the lungs in mice
14 February 2023
Field trials show that a form of wheat developed using CRIPSR gene editing produces lower levels of the potentially carcinogenic compound acrylamide when cooked at high temperatures
26 January 2023
Smaller melanoma skin cancer cells may be more vulnerable to drugs that block DNA repair, while larger cells might be more responsive to immunotherapy
24 January 2023
Research suggests that the risk of dying from any type of cancer is 18 per cent higher among people with type 2 diabetes, compared with the general population
15 December 2022
People who received a personalised melanoma skin cancer vaccine on top of a standard treatment were less likely to die over the study period than those who had the standard treatment alone
11 December 2022
A 13-year-old girl whose leukaemia had not responded to other treatments now has no detectable cancer cells after receiving a dose of immune cells that were genetically edited to attack the cancer
29 September 2022
A study of genetic test results used to guide cancer treatment found that Black people had their tumours misclassified twice as often as white people
