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News digest – diagnosis delays, cervical cancer deaths, ‘what is cancer?’, and… mobile phones?
Anne Li This week, Cancer Research UK’s News Digest gives us updates on diagnosis delays, staff shortages, questions, causes of cancer, HPV, cancer survivors, advances in medicine and technology, and finally…. mobile phones? See original…
Our 2017 cancer policy highlights: local, national and international
Anne Li As 2017 comes to an end, Cancer Research UK gives us highlights of the year: cutting smoke rates, tackling obesity, staff shortages, tobacco control plan, general election campaigning, sugar tax, cigarette packaging, and…
2017 cancer research highlights: a patient’s pick
Anne Li It’s been another busy year in cancer research and with so much remarkable work going on it made picking our research highlights for 2017 a tough task. At Cancer Research UK, patients are…
Electronic cap treatment improves brain tumour survival
Anne Li Applying low frequency electric fields to the scalp of people with an aggressive type of brain tumour improves survival, according to a clinical trial. Researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine…
Cutting cancer diagnosis delays means understanding each patient’s journey
Anne Li The National Cancer Diagnosis Audit (NCDA) found that more than 7 in 10 cancer patients first reported symptoms at the GP surgery, or during a GP home visit. Less than 1 in 10…
