Cancer

Cancer is one of the greatest global challenges. No one organisation, sector or even country can solve it alone. Just like what we’ve seen with the pandemic, global collaboration and proper investment are what’s needed to drive progress in cancer too. It’s been a terrible year. But even in the worst times, there are silver
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Don’t hide when your neighbor comes to your door with another one of those baseball bat-sized zucchini! Here some fun recipes from The American Institute for Cancer Research.   What’s to love about those long green and yellow summer squash that seem to go from tiny little squash fingers into baseball bats overnight? Low in calories
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It has been announced today that Philip Morris International (PMI), the American tobacco company, and maker of Marlboro cigarettes, is buying Vectura, the British respiratory drugs company, for £1.04 billion. Vectura has worked on treatments for lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and is the pharmaceutical company responsible for developing a pioneering inhaled treatment
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Survivorship care typically begins at the end of active treatment. The goal is to provide support and resources for moving forward after treatment. In reality, survivorship care is most helpful when it looks at your whole cancer experience, from diagnosis forward. You are a survivor from day 1. A vital starting point is a baseline
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There is no reason political interests should interfere in discussions about women’s health and health care, yet they often do. For example, insurance companies were once punished for providing women with safe access to pregnancy prevention. Critical funding for cancer screenings and nutritional support for low-income families has more than once been cut under pressure
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The Pacific Northwest in the U.S. and British Columbia, Canada are being scorched by an unprecedented heat wave this summer. This rare “heat dome” is predicted to only occur once every 1,000 years or so. States across the northwest are breaking records for heat, which is not only incredibly uncomfortable, but extremely dangerous in general
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White bagging is a practice that insurance companies have used for years. It requires patients and hospitals to get special medications such as chemotherapy drugs at insurance-approved formulary pharmacies instead of at their regular pharmacies. Using specialty formulary pharmacies means that each medication is formulated for the patient’s needs instead of mass-produced. Of course, the
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The University of Birmingham has partnered with Nonacus, a company that develops non-invasive genetic testing devices, to produce a urine test for bladder cancer that could spare thousands of people invasive procedures. The test will combine Nonacus’ highly sensitive DNA-sensing technology with a set of unique DNA errors (mutations) found in the majority of bladder
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How scientific expertise, funding and entrepreneurship came together for the development of an antibody-drug conjugate targeting lymphoma. Oncologists treating diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) have a new medicine in their armoury. In April 2021, following impressive Phase 1 and 2 clinical trial data, the FDA gave accelerated approval to Zynlonta for treating patients with refractory
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This story was originally shared on The Animal Rescue Site. Submit your own rescue story here. Your story just might be the next to be featured on our blog! I wanted a chihuahua to be a companion to a small one I have that has seizures and sight problems. I thought a friend would help
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For women with HER2-positive breast cancer, a common treatment regimen involves combining three different types of chemotherapy drugs: trastuzumab, docetaxel, and carboplatin. Together, these therapies are known as TCbH. However, a new study has shown that adding a fourth drug may improve outcomes for these patients. Pyrotinib is an irreversible second-generation HER2-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor
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Summer means more time outdoors soaking up the sun and family gatherings in the backyard, but it also means battling mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are considered “vampires” of the insect world. The females crave human blood, but unlike vampires don’t need it to survive. Instead, drinking human blood allows them to reproduce and lay eggs. If only
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Cancer Research UK’s much-loved Race for Life events are due to return across the UK this autumn, after being cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic. Anyone who signs up before 4 July can claim 30% off the entry fee by using the code RFLJUNE30. We’re so excited to welcome back our wonderful supporters to
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