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How a new light-based cancer treatment could destroy tumours without harming healthy cells – using LEDs

Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today’s therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but physical and emotional too. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy remain vital tools, yet they often damage healthy cells alongside cancerous ones, leaving patients exhausted and vulnerable to long-term side effects.

The Conversation

Rugby legend Sir Ian McGeechan gives major update on cancer journey

McGeechan shared his diagnosis in May and underwent treatment, which included a six-week course of radiotherapy

The Independent UK

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research

The COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved 2.5 million lives globally during the pandemic could help spark the immune system to fight cancer. This is the surprising takeaway of a new study that we and our colleagues published in the journal Nature.

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COVID-19 vaccines may help some cancer patients fight tumors

The most widely used COVID-19 vaccines may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients by boosting their immune systems to help fight tumors

The Independent UK

How the mRNA technology behind COVID-19 vaccines could ‘turbo-charge’ cancer treatments

Cancer patients who received the mRNA-based jab after starting immunotherapy lived significantly longer than those who did not get the vaccine.

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Study suggests Covid jab could boost cancer treatment

Researchers now want to conduct larger studies to confirm the findings.

Evening Standard

Hollyoaks star Ali Bastian gives health update seven months after being given the all-clear from cancer

EXCLUSIVE: The actress also says she’s ‘open’ to a return to Hollyoaks, saying her iconic character Becca Dean ‘needs to come back and have a word’ with her troubled on-screen son as soap celebrates its 30th anniversary

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Is Bryant Gumbel Alive? Fans Worried TV Icon's Cancer Is Back After Sudden Hospital Dash

Bryant Gumbel's hospital dash sparks fears his lung cancer has returned, leaving fans deeply worried about the 76-year-old TV icon's health.

International Business Times UK

The tragedy of Jade Goody — where are her beloved sons now?

The Big Brother contestant went from unknown identity to ‘the most hated woman in Britain’. As her son admits he’s homeless, we remember her story

Evening Standard

Cancer drug quality in Africa is a worry: what we found in a 4-country study

The number of people receiving treatment for cancer has risen dramatically in the last decade in many African countries. For example, 10 years ago in Ethiopia and Kenya, cancer care was available to only a few thousand patients per year in a few hospitals. Today, over 75,000 people receive cancer…

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Oasis reveal guitarist Bonehead’s replacement during Seoul gig

Rhythm guitarist is taking a break from the ongoing reunion tour while he receives further treatment for prostate cancer

The Independent UK

Paloma Shemirani’s brother thinks more will die in ‘wild west’ of disinformation

The 23-year-old Cambridge graduate died in July last year after declining cancer treatment on the advice of her conspiracy theorist parents.

The Independent UK

NHS patient receives innovative liver cancer treatment outside clinical trials

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The Wanted singer fronts brain cancer campaign after death of bandmate Tom Parker

Parker died at the age of 33 in March 2022 more than a year after he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour.

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The Independent UK

First NHS patient outside of clinical trials has new treatment for liver cancer

The technology uses ultrasound to destroy cancer cells and can be done in as little as 30 minutes, without the need for surgery.

The Independent UK

First UK patient receives ‘game-changing’ ultrasound that destroys liver cancer

A Cambridge hospital is the first in Europe to provide the procedure

The Independent UK

Suzanne Somers’ husband creates AI clone of late actress two years after her death: ‘Can’t tell the difference’

Somers died in 2023 after living with breast cancer for 23 years

International Business Times

We Treat Cancer and Overlook the Damage to Others: Why Childhood Cancer and Autism Are Rising and What We Must Do Now

The standard assumption is that once the medication is in a patient, that process is over. But that's not correct. The USP 800 standard recognizes that "handling body fluids (e.g., urine, feces, sweat, or vomit)" from patients treated with these life-altering chemicals is an avoidable risk.

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Teddi Mellencamp's Miracle Comeback Baffles Doctors: Reality Star Beats Deadly Stage 4 Cancer Against All Odds

After years of battling stage 4 melanoma, Teddi Mellencamp's latest scans show no detectable cancer. The reality star's recovery has left doctors amazed.

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Women's health is an 'economic blind spot.' Data is the key to reframing the conversation

There’s an urgent need for leadership, innovation, and a redefinition of what it means to design health “for us, by us,” experts said at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit.

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60 Medical Problems That Are Far Worse Than People Think

"It can't be that bad, right?"

The Independent UK

K-pop star apologises after performing ‘inappropriate’ song at celebrity breast cancer awareness event

Jay Park issues apology after breast cancer survivors call out sexually explicit lyrics

The Independent UK

Covid jab sparks immune response to fight cancer, study finds

Discovery could be ‘significant step’ towards universal cancer vaccine

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Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs' temporary Oasis Live '25 Tour stand-in revealed

Liam Gallagher's solo band member, Mike Moore, is reportedly set to stand in for Paul 'Bonehead' Arthurs as he undergoes prostate cancer treatment.

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