Janet Fricker

Nearly one in five new cervical cancers diagnosed between 2009 and 2018 were in women aged 65 years and over. The US study, published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, January 9, demonstrates that relative to younger women, those aged…

A European Society for Paediatric Oncology (SIOPE) project has defined 66 anticancer medicines considered essential for treatment of children with cancer. The study, published in The Lancet Oncology, 23 December 2022, represents the first pan-European effort to systematically analyse the…

After a bout of high-intensity interval training, men with advanced prostate cancer showed acute elevations of anti-cancer myokines in their serum. The study, published in Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, (29 November 2022), then demonstrated growth suppression of prostate cancer…

The 2022 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, hosted in association with the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), was held December 6–10, 2022. More than 8,000 researchers, clinicians, students, and patient advocates from 90 countries attended the meeting, which focused…

Pharmacological suppression of adrenergic and inflammatory signalling using readily available drugs to lower blood pressure and reduce anxiety decreased the risk of post-surgical colorectal cancer (CRC) recurrence. The pilot COMPIT study, published in the European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 6…

Aerobic exercise can reduce the risk of developing metastatic cancer by 73%. Using both human epidemiological data and in vivo mouse models of melanoma metastasis, Israeli investigators report in Cancer Research (November 15) that high-intensity aerobic exercise increases glucose consumption…

Postmenopausal women with dense breast tissue compared to women of the same age who do not have dense tissue demonstrate upregulation of 124 proteins which may be responsible for creating pro-tumorigenic microenvironments. The study, published in the British Journal of…

More cancer patients want to be informed about their future functional prognosis than their life expectancy. The Japanese survey, published in Annals of Palliative Medicine, October 28,  found that almost half of patients wanted to know about their functional progress…

Targeting a specific enzyme in muscle could help cancer patients avoid the muscle wasting condition cachexia. The study, published in PNAS (October 17), found that a previously overlooked enzyme, known as UBR2, plays a critical role in cancer patients developing…

Treating high-risk, asymptomatic bone metastases with prophylactic radiation therapy reduces painful complications and extends overall survival. The study, abstract LBA 04, presented at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting, held October 23–26, 2022, in San Diego, California,…