We’ve just heard that the controversial drug DCA (dicholoroacetate) is to enter preliminary trials for the treatment of brain tumours.
Controversial drug to enter trials for cancer
September 28, 2007
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Posted by Henry Scowcroft
Cancer ‘did not cause dinosaur extinction’
September 26, 2007
Cancer is often regarded as a disease of modern living, caused by our high-fat, low-exercise lifestyle, too much boozing and smoking, or sinister ‘things in the environment’.
But while it’s true that our sedentary lifestyles and bad diets have changed the rates of certain types of cancer (notably lung or bowel cancer), the disease is actually as old as life itself.
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Posted by Henry Scowcroft
Clean Pill of health?
September 24, 2007
Last week, the media was full of news stories proclaiming that the
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Posted by Ed Yong
Found in translation?
September 19, 2007“Translational research” is a term that’s often thrown around in scientific circles, but what does it actually mean? Usually it’s used to refer to research that takes laboratory discoveries and turns them into cancer treatments – so-called “bench to bedside” research. But does it differ from other types of research? Or is it just a trendy phrase that scientists use when they’re trying to apply for funding?
Now you can listen to the experts mull over what translational research means for the future of cancer. Those nice folk at the journal Nature Reviews Cancer have put together a podcast about translational research featuring Bruce Ponder, Fiona Watt, Duncan Odom and David Neal from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.
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Posted by Kat Arney
Look into my eyes…
September 7, 2007You are getting very sleepy…
Hypnosis is usually thought of as a stage show, or a way of helping people to quit habits like smoking. 
But new research published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute this week has suggested that hypnosis before breast cancer surgery may help to reduce the amount of anaesthetic needed, as well as reducing pain afterwards.
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Posted by Kat Arney
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