Articles about 'Cancer Research UK (CRUK)'

A counterintuitive approach to fighting cancer

09 November 2016

When you’re under attack, you fight back. You gather your troops and attack the invading enemy, hoping to wound and defeat them, while supporting and treating your own injured soldiers. It’s common sense.

Weight loss condition provides insight into failure of cancer immunotherapies

08 November 2016

A weight loss condition that affects patients with cancer has provided clues as to why cancer immunotherapy – a new approach to treating cancer by boosting a patient’s immune system – may fail in a substantial number of patients.

Cambridge extends world leading role for medical imaging with powerful new brain and body scanners

24 October 2016

̽��ֱ��next generation of imaging technology, newly installed at the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge, will give researchers an unprecedented view of the human body – in particular of the myriad connections within our brains and of tumours as they grow and respond to treatment – and could pave the way for development of treatments personalised for individual patients.

Mediterranean diet could lower the risk of cardiovascular disease in the UK

29 September 2016

Britons eating a Mediterranean diet could lower their risk of developing heart disease and stroke, according to research published in the open access journal BMC Medicine.

Crystal structure of parallel quadruplexes from human telomeric DNA.

Quadruple helix form of DNA may aid in the development of targeted cancer therapies

12 September 2016

Researchers have identified the role that a four-stranded version of DNA may play in the role of cancer progression, and suggest that it may be used to develop new targeted cancer therapies.

Oesophageal cancer treatments could be tailor-made for individual patients, study finds

06 September 2016

Tailored, targeted treatment for patients with oesophageal cancer could be developed after scientists discovered that the disease can be classified into three different subtypes

Neighbourhoods with more takeaways amplify social inequalities in unhealthy eating and obesity

11 May 2016

People who live or work near to a greater number of takeaway outlets are more likely to eat more takeaway food and to be overweight, but new research indicates that neighbourhoods that are saturated with fast food outlets may be particularly unhealthy for people who are socioeconomically disadvantaged.

Study provides clues to why some breast cancers are hard to beat

10 May 2016

Scientists have unearthed crucial new genetic information about how breast cancer develops and the genetic changes which can be linked to survival, according to a study published in Nature Communications today.

Scientists double number of known genetic risk factors for endometrial cancer

03 May 2016

An international collaboration of researchers has identified five new gene regions that increase a woman’s risk of developing endometrial cancer, one of the most common cancers to affect women, taking the number of known gene regions associated with the disease to nine.

Embryo development: Some cells are more equal than others even at four-cell stage

24 March 2016

Genetic ‘signatures’ of early-stage embryos confirm that our development begins to take shape as early as the second day after conception, when we are a mere four cells in size, according to new research led by the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge and EMBL-EBI. Although they seem to be identical, the cells of the two day-old embryo are already beginning to display subtle differences.

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