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News digest – clinical trials, bowel cancer screening, coffee and cancer, and more by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Catch up on the cancer news Sunday was International Clinical Trials Day. To mark the occasion, Gareth Griffiths, Scientific Director of our Wales Cancer Tri ... Read on »

Translating breast cancer’s life history by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge Nestling in the Cambridgeshire countryside, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is a hot-bed of cutting-edge gen ... Read on »

Transforming the environment for UK health research by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Our new report talks about improving health research The forecast for health research in the UK is looking brighter. That was the mood at the meeting of the U ... Read on »

A personal experience of treating lung cancer patients by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer What is it like to work as a lung cancer nurse? Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world. Over 1.6 million people across the globe were diagnosed with t ... Read on »

Plain tobacco packs awaken a sleeping tobacco industry by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Australia has passed legislation – due to come into effect in December 2012 – to standardise all tobacco packaging, removing all branding and imagery. As the UK governm ... Read on »

News digest – tobacco packaging, cutting bowel cancer deaths, aspirin, and more by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Here are the week’s top headlines: “ New report and film reveal shocking impact of tobacco packaging on children ” (press release) Young people and women ... Read on »

Trial success helps patients avoid radical bladder cancer surgery by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Wendy Powell took part in the early clinical trial Last week we reported on the success of a major bladder cancer trial, funded by Cancer Research UK. The pra ... Read on »

Increasing the resolution on breast cancer – the METABRIC study by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer New research has examined breast cancer in even more detail The emotion and anxiety aroused by a single word – ‘cancer’ – spans ages, sexes, nations, races and cl ... Read on »

A personal story about the impact of tobacco by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Andrew Lansley has launched a three-month long consultation on the future of tobacco packaging, and whether all cigarettes should be sold in packs of uniform size, sha ... Read on »

New insights into the treatment of childhood leukaemia by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer On the surface, the statistics about acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) are encouraging. Thanks to decades of painstaking research and clinical advances, around eight ... Read on »

News digest – conference updates, womb cancer stats, height and ovarian cancer, and... by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer It’s a longer-than-usual digest this week, as hundreds of scientists from around the world descend on Chicago for the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) a ... Read on »

Stiliyan Petrov: information about acute leukaemia by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Over the weekend we heard the news that Stiliyan Petrov, captain of Aston Villa football club, has been diagnosed with acute leukaemia. We wish him the very best o ... Read on »

News digest – bowel cancer, kidney cancer, booze, boost for drug development, and more by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Another week has flown by, and yet more interesting cancer research was in the news, both from our own scientists and from research groups around the world. We’ve ... Read on »

Shattered chromosomes give clue to childhood medulloblastoma and neuroblastoma by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Last year, the surprising discovery of chromothripsis – literally translated as “chromosome shattering” – revealed an entirely novel way for the DNA in cancer cells to ... Read on »

Lung screening – still a need for caution, despite new blood test by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Yesterday’s announcement that the Scottish government will trial a new lung cancer test has been widely covered in this morning’s media – both on TV and in the papers ... Read on »

News digest – abiraterone in Scotland, No Smoking Day, red meat, oral cancer, and more by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer It was a week that started in Scotland, with the ‘no’ decision on prostate drug abiraterone, and went on to cover skin cancer, No Smoking Day, oral cancer, shisha pipe ... Read on »

New melanoma drug goes on sale – but will it be affordable? by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer In 2002, a paper appeared in top science journal, Nature, called “ Mutations of the BRAF gene in human cancer ”. It described how scientists at The Institute of Ca ... Read on »

News digest – complex kidney tumours, smoking warning, HRT and more by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer Some weeks are busier than others, and the past seven days have been a whirlwind. Lots of fascinating cancer research has been covered in the media, including some imp ... Read on »

On the origin of tumours by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer “Cancer starts when a single cell in our body starts dividing out of control.” We repeat this statement so often it would be banal, were it not for its implica ... Read on »

News digest – falling cancer rates, cervical screening, tobacco, and more by Cancer Research UK Patient Expert

Posted in: Blog Posts in Cancer This week we’ve tried something different, and have collected the news stories that caught our eye in a widget called Storify. As always, you can click on the link ... Read on »