The Latest Breaking News from Chemotherapy

Geoffrey Seymour discovered blood in his stool just before his 41st birthday, which turned out to be stage four cancer

Dr Trish Scanlan, who has lived in the East African country for more than 15 years, has significantly improved survival rates for kids with cancer while also battling the disease herself but declared “more work needs to be done”.

Geoffrey Seymour discovered blood in his stool just before his 41st birthday, which turned out to be stage four cancer

Tom announced in October 2020 he had been diagnosed with stage four glioblastoma and had begun radiotherapy and chemotherapy but died in March 2022

Nish Syed has leukaemia and is likely to be on targeted chemotherapy tablets for the rest of his life but he is back to doing what he loves and touring the world with his music

More than 41,000 new cases of primary liver cancer and intrahepatic bile duct cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year, and more than 30,000 people will die of these diseases, according to the American Cancer Society.

Eilidh Dewar, from Oban, was diagnosed with leukaemia hours after going to see her GP over her constant lethargy.

Lynsey was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 and endured three years of chemotherapy

Kayleigh Turner, now 32, was diagnosed with cancer when she was 26 and was the youngest patient in her hospital ward undergoing chemotherapy

Kaleigh Bold had fought off one bout of aggressive breast cancer, which caused her to undergo intense chemotherapy and a double mastectomy a few years ago and finished treatment in 2020

Cancers are the second leading cause of death in the world, after cardiovascular diseases. Their seriousness lies in their diversity – some can be effectively treated with surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, while others respond poorly or not at all. Improving the treatment of these diseases is therefore a major challenge.