Boy, six, visited his GP 11 TIMES before he was taken to A&E and diagnosed with the ‘largest tumour medics had ever seen’ Ellis Edwards, from Bournemouth, has stage four aggressive neuroblastoma The rare childhood cancer caused a tumour to crush…
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‘Chromosome shattering’: Understanding chromothripsis in human cancer
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and EMBL-EBI have carried out the largest analysis across cancer types of the newly discovered mutational phenomenon chromothripsis. This study is the largest of its kind to date, containing whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data from over…
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Do elevated mercury levels in the blood increase skin cancer risk?
Higher levels of mercury in the blood were linked with a higher prevalence of non-melanoma skin cancer, the most common human malignancy, in a study published in the British Journal of Dermatology. For the study, researchers analyzed 2003-2016 data on…
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Revealed an alteration related to the loss of effectiveness of a treatment in lung cancer
The Cancer Genetics Group of the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, led by Montse Sánchez-Céspedes, together with Luis Montuenga from CIMA, and Enriqueta Felip from Vall d’Hebron Hospital, has revealed that inactivation of RB1 through intragenic rearrangements is frequent in…
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Cervical cancer rates show 'steep rise among women in their late 20s'
Cervical cancer rates jump by 54% among women in their late 20s as charity warns of ‘stalling progress’ and urges women to go to NHS screening appointments Cancer Research UK said there’s been a lack of progress in tackling the…
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The man with a five-inch HORN sticking out of his back due to cancer
Man has a five-inch ‘dragon’ HORN removed from his back after it turned out to be skin cancer that he ignored for three years The giant cutaneous horn is a build-up of skin and hair protein, called keratin It was…
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Cancer: Adding this spice to your meals could offer hope in fighting against the disease
Cancer’s biggest risk is simply getting older with more than three-quarters of all people being diagnosed with cancer in the UK aged over 60. The reason is because cancer is a disease of genes. Over time, mistakes accumulate in the…
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Private bowel cancer checks 'less accurate than NHS tests'
Thousands of bowel tumours are missed every year due to ‘unacceptable’ test failures as it emerges private checks are ‘less accurate’ than those carried out on the NHS, new study suggests UK researchers looked at more than 120,000 individuals having…
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