Breast cancer: Test means fewer women will need chemotherapy
By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent, BBC News 3 June 2018 About 70% of women with the most common form of early stage breast cancer can be spared the […]
Dying mother given months to live is saved by ex-husband’s new wife
Nicola Hitchen was told she had months to live – until Claire Hitchen starting fundraising for a pioneering new treatment Caroline Mortimer @cjmortimer Nicola Hitchen has undergone a pioneering treatment in Turkey to treat her cervical cancer Cascade News A woman who was given four months to live by doctors, has […]
Doctors ‘cure’ leukemia by using HIV to rewire immune system
RT: Doctors have successfully used a disabled version of HIV to modify a 7-year-old leukemia patient’s white blood cells to attack her cancer. The breakthrough procedure could potentially replace bone marrow transplant as a leukemia treatment. Emma Whitehead was selected as a patient for the experimental technique after two years […]