Cancer treatment news: Starving cells of OXYGEN could destroy deadly tumours

Cancer kills someone every four minutes in the UK, according to Cancer Research UK – but scientists may have moved a step closer to finding an effective treatment for solid tumours. Current ways to treat icancer include chemotherapy and radiotherapy. However, researchers have discovered a new way to destroy tumours that is similar to the […]

Prostate cancer breakthrough: THIS new technique could help treat deadly tumours

A new imaging technique uncovers oxygen levels in prostate tumours, and could lead to a non-invasive way to determine which tumours are more difficult to treat. Scientists at the University of Cambridge created a technique with an imaging device using a combination of light and sound to check the oxygen levels in prostate tumours in […]

CANCER BREAKTHROUGH: New drug set to shrink cervical cancer tumours

More than a quarter of terminally ill patients taking part in trials of the immunotherapy drug had “significant” tumour shrinkage or complete remission.  Nivolumab , which stimulates the body’s own immune system to attack cancer cells, is already licensed to treat lung and the deadly skin cancer, melanoma.  However, this is the first time this […]