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Janet Fricker

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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.
No reason to delay cancer immunotherapy following antibiotic use
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No reason to delay cancer immunotherapy following antibiotic use

  • Janet Fricker
  • 15 March 2022

Exposure to antibiotics prior to anti-PD-1 antibody treatment had no effect on melanoma outcomes.  The French study, reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (published March 7, 2022), found using antibiotics in a large cohort of advanced melanoma…

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Harmful bacteria play greater role in predicting outcomes of immune checkpoint blockade in melanoma
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Harmful bacteria play greater role in predicting outcomes of immune checkpoint blockade in melanoma

  • Janet Fricker
  • 4 March 2022

Harmful gut bacteria may play a greater role than beneficial bacteria in determining efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade in melanoma patients. The study, published in Nature Medicine (28 February), found microbial signatures containing Lachnospiraceae species were connected to favourable anti-programmed…

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Starting age for MRI breast screening defined for three genetic mutations
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Starting age for MRI breast screening defined for three genetic mutations

  • Janet Fricker
  • 2 March 2022

Annual magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) starting from age 30 to 35 years followed by combined annual MRI and mammography from age 40 may reduce breast cancer mortality by over 50% for women with ATM, CHEK2, and PALB2 breast cancer genetic…

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Aromatase inhibitors better than tamoxifen in premenopausal breast cancer
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Aromatase inhibitors better than tamoxifen in premenopausal breast cancer

  • Janet Fricker
  • 16 February 2022

Giving aromatase inhibitors (AIs) instead of tamoxifen to premenopausal women with oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer, who have undergone ovarian suppression, significantly reduces risk of recurrence. The study, published in The Lancet Oncology (3 February), found that breast cancer recurrence…

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After Covid: AACR call to action to improve cancer care
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After Covid: AACR call to action to improve cancer care

  • Janet Fricker
  • 16 February 2022

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has issued ‘a call to action’ to build on lessons learnt from Covid-19 to modernize cancer patient care. The ‘ACCR Report on the Impact of Covid-19 on Cancer Research and Patient Care’, published…

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Study suggests prehabilitation should become standard of care in oesophageal cancer
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Study suggests prehabilitation should become standard of care in oesophageal cancer

  • Janet Fricker
  • 4 February 2022

Enrolling oesophageal cancer patients in prehabilitation exercise programmes can boost tumour regression during chemotherapy. The small study, published in British Journal of Sports Medicine (online 1 February, 2022), demonstrated improved pathological, radiological and immunological responses to chemotherapy for those in the…

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Citizen science: Do your bit for cancer research by playing a game
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Citizen science: Do your bit for cancer research by playing a game

  • Janet Fricker
  • 4 February 2022

Calling all gamers ‒ you can do your bit for advancing cancer research by playing a video game. While this may sound like the ultimate excuse, Spanish investigators really have just launched a smartphone game ‒ the GENIGMA challenge ‒…

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Study unveils how obesity raises cancer risk
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Study unveils how obesity raises cancer risk

  • Janet Fricker
  • 21 January 2022

Obesity-dependent changes in lipid handling in cells may explain why overweight people are more prone to developing cancer than those of normal weights. The study, published in Nature Communications (14 January 2022), identifies higher levels of palmitic acid as the…

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Sitting and lack of physical activity is a deadly combination in cancer survivors
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Sitting and lack of physical activity is a deadly combination in cancer survivors

  • Janet Fricker
  • 19 January 2022

Cancer survivors who combine being inactive (or insufficiently active) with sitting for more than eight hours a day dramatically increase their risk of both cancer specific and overall mortality. The prospective cohort study, published in JAMA Oncology (6 January 2022),…

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Lung cancer screening: 2022 could be a turning point for Europe
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Lung cancer screening: 2022 could be a turning point for Europe

  • Janet Fricker
  • 14 January 2022

If cancer screening policies were driven purely by mortality rates and curability, then lung cancer would long have topped the priority list for population screening programmes. Accounting for almost one in every four cancer deaths in men and almost one…

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