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Sunday, Jun 9

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Doctor shares harrowing reality of working in a clinic where 70 percent of young patients have incurable colon cancer- including a 14-year-old

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Kansas-based Dr Raed Al Rajabi (pictured inset) explains how in the last decade he has begun treating younger patients with incurable colorectal cancers, like many other doctors across the world.

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FIVE revolutionary cancer therapies that will change the lives of NHS patients from this year, from a daily tablet to a new 'smart bomb'

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What are the key take-home developments - away from the headlines - that, as The Mail on Sunday's Health Editor, I think you need to know about? Read on to find out.

Tears as 2-Year-Old With Cancer Bonds With Hospital's Facility Dog

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A golden retriever and the patient hung out together on the hospital bed playing games and getting treats.

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Immunotherapy Before Surgery Leads to Better Outcomes for People with Colon Cancer

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Colorectal cancer is notoriously resistant to immunotherapy options. But, for a subset of patients, a novel treatment shows promise,

Saturday, Jun 8

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Hundreds of cancer patients are hit as thousands of appointments are cancelled after London NHS hospitals are hit by Russian cyber attack

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Thousands of appointments, transplant operations, cancer referrals and C-section procedures were cancelled after the Russian cyber attack on London NHS hospitals.

Artery Inflammation and CV Events; Stepped Palliative Care for Lung Cancer Patients

(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences…

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Hundreds of cancer patients hit by NHS cyberattack as thousands of appointments cancelled

Exclusive: Hundreds of patients urgently referred for suspected cancer had appointments cancelled

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Research identifies issues with booking new appointments at clinics for cancer treatment

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Researchers at the University of Michigan are finding that many patients may be encountering significant barriers to cancer care, even from their first phone call to a clinic.

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Anyone with these four red-flag symptoms given three-week cancer warning

Experts have identified four 'red flag' symptoms of bowel cancer that can appear in patients under the age of 50, months before diagnosis, with people urged to be aware of the signs

Friday, Jun 7

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Police: Miami-Dade fraudsters pretend to be a cancer patient and her caretaker

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Police officers reported two women pretending to be a cancer patient and a caretaker were serial robbers.

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Huge hope for children with cancer as targeted medicine found to cure most aggressive cases with ‘remarkable results’

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TREATING childhood cancer with medicine tailored to individual patients could halve the risk of it growing or spreading, a study found.

Huge hope for children with cancer as targeted medicine found to cure most aggressive cases with ‘remarkable results’

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TREATING childhood cancer with medicine tailored to individual patients could halve the risk of it growing or spreading, a study found.

Huge hope for children with cancer as targeted medicine found to cure most aggressive cases with ‘remarkable results’

TREATING childhood cancer with medicine tailored to individual patients could halve the risk of it growing or spreading, a study found.

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FDA Approves Geron's First Commercial Drug, Competes With Bristol Myers Squibb's Blood Cancer Drug

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On Thursday, the FDA approved Geron Corporation's (NASDAQ:GERN) Rytelo (imetelstat) for adult patients with low-to intermediate-1 risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) with transfusion-dependent anemia.

US doctors probing if COVID is to blame for ‘unusual’ spike in cancer after pandemic

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The group of medical experts banded together to launch research studies and share data after concluding there was compelling evidence among their own patients to suggest a link between COVID and cancer diagnoses.

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Innovative combination therapy shows promise for bladder cancer patients unresponsive to standard treatment

In an advance that could improve bladder cancer treatment, a novel combination of cretostimogene grenadenorepvec and pembrolizumab has shown remarkable efficacy in patients with Bacillus Calmette-Gu rin (BCG)-unresponsive non-muscle…

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Will understanding cancer become a data problem?

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Can the use of data analytical tools render the process of diagnosis at least, easier? Will that eventually result in lowering risks, discomfort and pain for the patients, and their families? If this can be done, what will be the costs of…

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Targeted cancer medicine able to cure most aggressive cases with ‘remarkable results’

Precision medicine uses genetic or molecular profiling techniques to optimise treatment for each patient