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A counterintuitive approach to fighting cancer

09 Nov 2016

When you’re under attack, you fight back. You gather your troops and attack the invading enemy, hoping to wound and defeat them, while supporting and...

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solidarity against cancer

Study provides clues to why some breast cancers are hard to beat

10 May 2016

Scientists have unearthed crucial new genetic information about how breast cancer develops and the genetic changes which can be linked to survival...

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Breast cancer reflection

Breast cancer genetic variants found to alter how cells respond to oestrogen

29 Feb 2016

An international study of almost 120,000 women has newly identified five genetic variants affecting risk of breast cancer, all of which are believed...

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Color-enhancement show magnetic resonance image (MRI) of individual breast

Genetic screening could improve breast cancer prevention

09 Apr 2015

A test for a wide range of genetic risk factors could improve doctors’ ability to work out which women are at increased risk of developing breast...

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Breast implant

Should breast implants come with a health warning?

18 Mar 2015

Newspaper reports suggest that France may be considering health warnings – or even an outright ban – on breast implants, following a cancer scare...

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Breast Cancer Public Art

Fifteen new breast cancer genetic risk ‘hot-spots’ revealed

09 Mar 2015

Scientists have discovered 15 previously unknown genetic ‘hot-spots’ that can increase a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, according to...

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Breast cancer cells

Gene increases risk of breast cancer to one in three by age seventy

06 Aug 2014

Breast cancer risks for one of potentially the most important genes associated with breast cancer after the BRCA1/2 genes are today reported in the...

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Killer T-cell

Immune cells found near tumours boost breast cancer survival

10 Jun 2014

Women with breast cancer are 10 per cent more likely to survive for five years or more if they have certain immune cells near their tumour, according...

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Body builders: collagen scaffolds

04 Jun 2014

Miniature scaffolds made from collagen – the ‘glue’ that holds our bodies together – are being used to heal damaged joints, and could be used to...

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Electron microscopic image of a single human lymphocyte.

Enterprising Cambridge students win major breast cancer start-up competition

07 Mar 2014

Two teams of University of Cambridge students have won a prestigious international competition to commercialise innovative breast cancer research.

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Woman receiving a mammogram

Deprivation responsible for 450 breast cancer deaths each year

04 Nov 2013

Deprivation could be responsible for around 450 deaths from breast cancer every year in England as women in lower income groups are likely to be...

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Simple IMRT

Research to change how breast cancer treated

20 Sep 2013

Study shows better overall cosmetic results for women treated using intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT).

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