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Janet Fricker is a medical writer specialising in oncology and cardiology. After researching articles for Cancerworld she runs, swims, and eats porridge.
Strategies Needed to Prioritise Screening in Survivors of Childhood Cancer
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Strategies Needed to Prioritise Screening in Survivors of Childhood Cancer

  • Janet Fricker
  • 4 June 2025

Survivors of childhood cancer experience accelerated onset of ageing-related diseases, regardless of prior radiation exposure. The simulation modelling study, published in JAMA Oncology, online March 20, found that chronic health conditions developed 10 to 20 years earlier than expected and…

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Common Diabetes Medication Could Protect Heart Health During Cancer Treatment
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Common Diabetes Medication Could Protect Heart Health During Cancer Treatment

  • Janet Fricker
  • 30 May 2025

Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, a common type of diabetes medication, may protect the heart during and after cancer treatment. The systematic review and meta-analysis, published in European Journal of Preventive Cardiology on 6 March, shows that SGLT2 inhibitors halve…

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Personalised neoantigen vaccine for kidney cancer shows promise in phase 1 study
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Personalised neoantigen vaccine for kidney cancer shows promise in phase 1 study

  • Janet Fricker
  • 8 May 2025

Personalised neoantigen cancer vaccines (both with and without ipilimumab) elicited anticancer immune responses in nine patients with fully resected clear cell renal cell carcinoma. The investigator-initiated phase 1 trial, published in Nature, February 5 2025, observed no recurrences at a…

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What Caught Our Eye in April: Oncology’s Top Moments
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What Caught Our Eye in April: Oncology’s Top Moments

  • Janet Fricker
  • 7 May 2025

April 2025 marked a significant month in oncology, with notable advancements in cancer treatment and research. Here’s a summary of the most compelling studies and recent breakthroughs that caught our eye this month. Popular CT scans could account for 5%…

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It’s no longer taboo to suggest that some metastatic breast cancers may be curable
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It’s no longer taboo to suggest that some metastatic breast cancers may be curable

  • Janet Fricker
  • 30 April 2025

It’s long been clear that, in most patients with metastatic HER-positive breast cancer, adding effective HER2 blockade to cytotoxics can result in very prolonged responses. Janet Fricker reports on the prospective trials building evidence on whether – and in whom…

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What Caught Our Eye in March: Oncology’s Top Moments
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What Caught Our Eye in March: Oncology’s Top Moments

  • Janet Fricker
  • 8 April 2025

March saw the publication of several important studies in oncology, shedding new light on cancer treatment and care. Here’s a roundup of the key studies on recent discoveries and breakthroughs that grabbed our attention this month. Small device, big impact:…

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Ovarian cancer: mechanism conferring resistance to immunotherapy revealed
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Ovarian cancer: mechanism conferring resistance to immunotherapy revealed

  • Janet Fricker
  • 21 March 2025

The presence of flagella, the propellers bacteria use to move, explains why immune checkpoint inhibitors do not work in patients with ovarian cancer. The study, published in Cancer Immunology Research, 11 February, suggests that immune cell recognition of bacterial flagella,…

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Muscular strength and cardiorespiratory fitness improve survival in cancer patients
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Muscular strength and cardiorespiratory fitness improve survival in cancer patients

  • Janet Fricker
  • 20 March 2025

Muscular strength and cardiorespiratory fitness are linked to a significantly lower risk of death from any cause and cancer-specific mortality in patients diagnosed with cancer. The meta-analysis, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, 21st January, found a…

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Low-dose aspirin reduces colorectal cancer recurrence in patients with PI3K alterations
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Low-dose aspirin reduces colorectal cancer recurrence in patients with PI3K alterations

  • Janet Fricker
  • 6 March 2025

Taking adjuvant low-dose aspirin daily for three years reduced recurrence of colorectal cancer by 55% in patients with somatic alterations in PI3K signalling compared to those taking placebo. The results of the ALASCCA study, presented at the 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal…

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MRI technique can identify pre-malignant pancreatic lesions
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MRI technique can identify pre-malignant pancreatic lesions

  • Janet Fricker
  • 20 February 2025

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a form of MRI, is capable of detecting pre-malignant lesions in both mouse and human pancreatic specimens. The ‘proof of concept’ study, published in Investigative Radiology, 13 December 2024, opens the way to use DTI for…

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