Oncology & Cancer

New imaging technique provides hope for deadly childhood cancer

Cancer Research UK's Centre for Drug Development (CDD), in collaboration with the Rising Tide Foundation (link is external), a Swiss-based non-profit organisation which funds innovative cancer trials, today (TUESDAY) announce ...

Oncology & Cancer

Classification system for bladder cancer prognosis

Researchers at Lund University have developed a classification system to determine the prognosis for bladder cancer. It is hoped that this will prove useful for future bladder cancer research and drug development.

Oncology & Cancer

Improved accuracy for cancer drug testing

A method to more accurately test anti-cancer drugs has now been developed at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. The method paves the way to much earlier assessment of who benefits from a specific drug and ...

Medications

Accelerating drug development

All human clinical trials of new treatments begin with phase I, where drugs are tested in isolation to confirm their safety. Yet most effective cancer treatments use a combination of drugs, so-called 'multi-agent' treatments. ...

Medical research

New role of protein kinases in embryo development and cancer

A group of protein kinases have been found to play an important role in embryo development and may even be a potential cancer drug target, says research led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the Francis Crick ...

Oncology & Cancer

New drug development to focus on the genetics of cervical cancer

University of Huddersfield researcher Dr Tsitsi Chituku is taking part in a project that seeks to learn more about the genetic factors that make some women more susceptible to cervical cancer. It was a recent visit to Africa, ...

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