Did you know that you can donate to the Asian Fund for Cancer Research in honor or in memory of someone in your life who has been impacted by cancer? Whether honoring a cancer survivor or memorializing the life of a family member, friend or co-worker lost to the disease,…...
WPI researchers create cancer-detecting chip
A mechanical engineering professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and his research team believe they have discovered a revolutionary new way to detect cancer. Balaji Panchapakesan said their liquid biopsy chip has been 100% effective in finding breast or lung cancer in more than a dozen patients in early tests, and…...
AFCR Statement on the Hong Kong Cancer Strategy
The Asian Fund for Cancer Research made this statement following the Friday, 26 July, announcement and dissemination of the Hong Kong Cancer Strategy: The Asian Fund for Cancer Research proudly supports and is committed to helping vigorously pursue the newly unveiled Hong Kong Cancer Strategy. We will fiercely fight to…...
Sarcoma Origin Identified
Cancer is anything but a straightforward disease; one tumor type can be entirely different from another not only in location, but causal agent and origin. There is differentiation even within the same type of cancer. Take sarcoma, which is in fact an umbrella term for nearly 100 cancers originating in the skeleton…...
What promising cancer research may go unfunded this year… unless you help?
I am writing today to ask for your 2019 Annual Fund renewal gift to the Asian Fund for Cancer Research, and your decision is absolutely crucial! Right now, talented scientists are waiting for funding to pursue potentially life-saving research projects. Generous friends like you will help determine which investigations will…...
Global Coalition for Adaptive Research’s Innovative Clinical Trial Platform Opens to Evaluate New Therapies for Brain Cancer
The Global Coalition for Adaptive Research (GCAR) announced today that the GBM AGILE (Glioblastoma Adaptive Global Innovative Learning Environment) clinical trial is opening its first clinical site, the Henry Ford Cancer Institute, and will begin enrolling patients this week. GBM AGILE is the world’s first global adaptive clinical trial platform…...
Prostate cancer MRI scans: is the NHS ready?
All men with suspected prostate cancer should be offered a specialist MRI scan when they’re referred to the hospital in England, before a biopsy. And it’s a decision that prostate cancer expert Professor Mark Emberton is extremely happy about. Read the original article at: https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2019/05/09/prostate-cancer-mri-scans-is-the-nhs-ready/...
News digest – NHS staff shortages, HPV vaccine in Rwanda, prostate cancer guidelines and sunscreen chemicals
Read about this week News Digest’s cancer research breakthrough headlines including National screening programs, a new drug for aggressive childhood brain cancer, HPV vaccination in Rwanda, and more. Original article at: https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2019/05/11/news-digest-nhs-staff-shortages-hpv-vaccine-in-rwanda-prostate-cancer-guidelines-and-sunscreen-chemicals/...
£6 million fund to boost number of Scots doctors involved in cancer research
Scottish science is set to receive a multimillion-pound boost to transform training for doctors who undertake cancer research – and help retain women scientists in the field. “If we’re to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured, we need all our doctors and scientists to be able to reach…...
