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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

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.

International Business Times

What's Going On With Summit Therapeutics Stock On Monday?

Summit Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:SMMT) stock is trading lower on Monday. The company shared progress on its lead drug candidate and third-quarter financial results.

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AstraZeneca/Daiichi Sankyo Partnered Breast Cancer Drug Shows Survival Benefit Over Chemotherapy

AstraZeneca Plc (NASDAQ:AZN) and Daiichi Sankyo on Monday released high-level results from the TROPION-Breast02 Phase 3 trial.

Benzinga

‘I beat cancer – but a postcode lottery of fertility services nearly robbed me of hopes of becoming a mother’

Fertility preservation remains inconsistent with the NHS

The Independent UK

Coroner Exposes Mom For Contributing To Daughter’s Passing By Influencing Her To Refuse Chemo

“If coffee enemas were a sustainable treatment for cancer. We would’ve cured cancer years ago!”

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Kate Shemirani Daughter's Cause of Death: Why Is The Coroner Raising Serious Concerns?

Paloma Shemirani died after rejecting chemotherapy; the coroner cited her mother Kate Shemirani's influence as a major contributing factor.

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‘My conspiracy theorist mother never told me my sister had died after refusing chemotherapy’

Paloma Shemirani died seven months after being diagnosed with cancer and pursuing ‘alternative treatment’ under her mother’s guidance

The Independent UK

Cambridge graduate who refused chemotherapy was ‘brainwashed’, says brother

Paloma Shemirani, 23, was ‘adversely influenced’ by her parents and others into not having chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer.

Evening Standard

UK woman who refused cancer drugs was influenced by mother, inquest finds

Paloma Shemirani, 23, died after refusing chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma despite doctors’ concerns

The Guardian - UK

Woman who died after refusing chemotherapy ‘adversely influenced’ by mother

Paloma Shemirani, 23, collapsed on July 19 last year and was taken to Royal Sussex County Hospital where she died five days later.

Evening Standard

Conspiracy theorist mother ‘influenced’ daughter to reject chemotherapy after she was diagnosed with cancer

Kate Shemirani’s conduct of care towards daughter Paloma described as ‘incomprehensible’ by a coroner

The Independent UK

Halsey gives chemotherapy update on rare health disorder

Halsey has opened up about going through more chemotherapy for her rare health disorder.

The Independent UK

Halsey undergoing chemotherapy for rare T-cell disorder

The singer has been diagnosed with lupus and a rare T-cell lymphoproliferative disorder

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The Independent UK

Trump's touting of an unproven autism drug surprised many, including the doctor who proposed it

A Trump administration decision to repurpose an old chemotherapy drug for autism has surprised many experts — including the physician who recently proposed the idea

The Independent UK

Mother diagnosed with incurable cancer after pain dismissed by doctors

Simone Williamson was diagnosed with myeloma after years of being ‘fobbed off’

International Business Times UK

Folinic Acid Secrets: Why Dr. Oz and iHerb Are Popularizing Leucovorin for Autism After Chemotherapy Success

Folinic acid gains attention as Dr. Oz and iHerb spotlight leucovorin's potential in autism after decades of chemotherapy use.

The Independent UK

‘I thought I had injured my back – but it was incurable blood cancer’

More than 33,000 people in the UK are living with myeloma, a type of incurable blood cancer that causes bone pain

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The Independent UK

Dad diagnosed with stage 4 cancer after wife’s death from the illness

Paul Garratt lost his wife of 10 years to breast cancer in 2015 at the age of 31

Benzinga

Summit Therapeutics' Lung Cancer Drug Under Dark Clouds As Keytruda Challenger Shows Regional Data Differences

Summit Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:SMMT), on Sunday, revealed the updated overall survival (OS) results from the global Phase 3 HARMONi trial of ivonescimab at the 2025 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC).

Evening Standard

Dermot Murnaghan ‘feeling pretty good’ after chemotherapy for stage four cancer

The TV presenter, who has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, said men should demand testing on the NHS.

LiveScience

Why do some people grow 'chemo curls' after cancer treatment?

After chemotherapy, some people get "chemo curls" and other changes to their hair texture and appearance. But why?

AAP

Mini hearts to save cancer survivors from heart disease

Lab-grown "mini hearts" the size of a grain of sand are being used to test new drugs researchers hope will protect breast cancer patients from heart failure.

Motor1

How Designing Supercars Helped Gordon Murray Through Cancer

Gordon Murray can’t stop working. As he approaches 80 years old, Murray is still developing new supercars, and not even a cancer diagnosis took him away from the drafting table. One of Gordon Murray Automotive’s newest supercars—the S1 LM—was developed while its namesake was undergoing chemotherapy.

The Independent UK

Woman diagnosed with same cancer as late husband after stomach ache

Ann Lally and her late husband, Mike, were both diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer

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