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Study provides motivation for European policy makers to implement comprehensive tobacco control

Fully implementing tobacco control policies across Europe would avoid an estimated 1.65 million lung cancer cases over the next 20 years. The modelling study, published in the May issue of The Lancet…

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Fit, susceptible, or frail? Updated recommendations for managing breast cancer in older people

Management of breast cancer in older women should include routine use of geriatric assessments. Recommendations from an updated multidisciplinary taskforce, which includes members of the European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists and…

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Ovarian cancer population screening study signals need for additional biomarkers

Annual screening for ovarian cancer detects cancer earlier but does not save lives, concludes the largest ovarian cancer screening trial up to now. On the basis of the UK study, published in…

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Study suggests tackling loneliness could help reduce cancer in middle-aged men

Loneliness among middle-aged men is associated with increased risks of developing cancer. The longitudinal Finnish study, published in the May issue of Psychiatry Research, additionally found mortality was higher among male cancer…

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Drug repurposing approaches offer hope for squamous cell carcinoma and Alzheimer’s disease

Two recent publications highlight the growing interest of drug repurposing in oncology. A study in Cancer Prevention Research (published online 12 April) shows how dopamine can stop the development and progression of…

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Prostate cancer: new leads for deterring progression

Future prospects for tackling aggressive prostate cancer emerged from two presentations at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual meeting, held virtually in mid-April. One identified how the risk of prostate cancer…

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Immunotherapy plus chemo: benefits in lung cancer neoadjuvant treatment

Adding a check point inhibitor to chemotherapy as neoadjuvant treatment for resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) produced significant improvements of pathological complete response (pCR) in comparison to chemotherapy alone. The CheckMate-816…

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Machine learning holds key to personalised cancer drugs

Researchers have developed a machine learning (ML) algorithm that can be used to rank the effectiveness of different drugs in reducing cancer cell growth for individual patients. In Nature Communications (25 March…

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Updated MINDACT results reveal chemotherapy benefit in some breast cancers varies by age

Updated results of the MINDACT trial confirm that women with early-stage breast cancer, who were assessed to be at high clinical but low genomic risk for recurrence, and did not receive chemotherapy,…

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European vision for universal access to oncology precision medicine biomarker tests

Current access to high quality oncology biomarker testing across Europe is inconsistent and contributes to health inequalities. To address barriers to biomarker testing, the ‘Unlocking the potential of precision medicine in Europe’…