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View the Living Proof article » Interferon is used as a treatment for certain cancers like malignant melanoma, multiple myeloma and kidney cancers. It is actually a naturally occurrin ...

Ultrasound Now ’Safe’ For Lung CancersRadiofrequency ablation (the technical term for ultrasound action on cancer cells at high temperature - covered in recent copies of icon) could be a "safe and ...

Breast Cancer Radiotherapy Side Effects   The Lancet Oncology reports on research studies by Darby and colleagues and Giordano and coworkers, on the side effects of radiotherapy in wome ...

Ultrasound More Widely UsedOur recent reports on the use of Ablation, (the use of radio-frequencies to liquify prostate tumours), may have been specific to prostate cancer treatment in the UK but ...

CT scans in cancer fearsNew evidence of a "substantial cancer risk" from CT scans is reported in the Lancet Oncology in October.At Columbia University researchers have calculated that the radiatio ...

FIRST CLICK HERE  AND READ OUR OVERVIEWTwo studies in The New England Journal of Medicine claim Taxotere (docetaxel) could prolong life by a couple of months in men with advance prostate ...

FIRST CLICK HERE  AND READ OUR OVERVIEWTarceva is a drug that targets a molecule with a key role in the growth and extended life span of cancer cells. Researchers at more than 70 centres ...

FIRST CLICK HERE  AND READ OUR OVERVIEWWith more than 16,000 people dying of bowel cancer in the UK each year, Professor Tim Maughan at Cardiff’s Velindre Hospitals is looking for 2,500 ...

FIRST CLICK HERE  AND READ OUR OVERVIEWLocal reoccurrences of oesophageal cancer can be reduced by using localised radiotherapy. Now researchers at McGill, Toronto have shown that intrac ...

Originally published in February 2003 icon A study involving over 600 women (the seventh test of its kind) showed no difference between high dose chemotherapy and normal levels in terms of effe ...

In the UK it is recommended their patients wait no more than 4 weeks for radiotherapy. Research from the Royal College of Radiotherapists shows 72 per cent now wait longer than this, compared wit ...