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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.
Breast cancer treatments may accelerate ageing
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Breast cancer treatments may accelerate ageing

  • Janet Fricker
  • 25 October 2024

Breast cancer treatments activate genes associated with biological ageing. The study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 8 October, suggests that chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery all lead to statistically significant increases in cellular senescence and DNA damage…

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Targeting a circulating cytokine offers new hope in cancer cachexia
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Targeting a circulating cytokine offers new hope in cancer cachexia

  • Janet Fricker
  • 24 October 2024

Among patients with cancer cachexia and elevated levels of the cytokine GDF-15, inhibiting GDF-15 with ponsegromab resulted in increased weight gain. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 14 September, showed that in comparison to placebo, patients taking ponsegromab…

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Study opens way for using antifibrotic drugs to prevent metastasis
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Study opens way for using antifibrotic drugs to prevent metastasis

  • Janet Fricker
  • 10 October 2024

Adding a drug currently used against idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis to chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant setting increased event-free survival in patients with early HER2-negative breast cancer. The study, published in Clinical Cancer Research, 16 September, found that high levels of fibrosis…

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Nobel Prize for medicine awarded for discovery of microRNAs, which play key role in cancer development
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Nobel Prize for medicine awarded for discovery of microRNAs, which play key role in cancer development

  • Janet Fricker
  • 10 October 2024

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, announced on Monday 7 October, has been awarded jointly to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for discovering microRNAs and their role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. The work by Ambros, now at the…

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ESMO launches initiative to tackle burnout in oncology healthcare professionals
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ESMO launches initiative to tackle burnout in oncology healthcare professionals

  • Janet Fricker
  • 27 September 2024

The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is calling on the oncology community to commit to improving the wellbeing of the cancer workforce. In a paper published in ESMO Open, 10 September, ESMO outlines 11 actions to manage psychosocial risks,…

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Antibody-drug conjugate proves effective against active brain metastases
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Antibody-drug conjugate proves effective against active brain metastases

  • Janet Fricker
  • 26 September 2024

The antibody drug conjugate trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) showed substantial intracranial activity in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer whose disease had metastasised to the brain. The DESTINY-Breast12 study, presented at the Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), held…

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Safely pausing or stopping treatment: could this be the future for solid tumours?
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Safely pausing or stopping treatment: could this be the future for solid tumours?

  • Janet Fricker
  • 12 September 2024

The success of treatment cessation in chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), outlined in an earlier Cancerworld feature, is opening the way for treatment breaks – or cessation with monitoring – to be considered in advanced solid tumours, including breast, kidney, colorectal,…

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Early menopause raises own risk of breast cancer and family members’ risk of breast, colon and prostate cancers
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Early menopause raises own risk of breast cancer and family members’ risk of breast, colon and prostate cancers

  • Janet Fricker
  • 12 September 2024

Women who experience primary ovarian insufficiency (menopause before the age of 40) are more than twice as likely to experience breast cancer as other women of similar ages. The study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 12…

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Raised suicide risk highlights need to support patient’s spouse
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Raised suicide risk highlights need to support patient’s spouse

  • Janet Fricker
  • 12 September 2024

The spouses of patients diagnosed with cancer were 28% more likely to attempt suicide and 47% more likely to succeed at their attempt than spouses of people not diagnosed. The Danish cohort study, published in Jama Oncology, August 15, found…

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Aspirin prevents colorectal cancer best in those with least healthy lifestyles
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Aspirin prevents colorectal cancer best in those with least healthy lifestyles

  • Janet Fricker
  • 29 August 2024

Regular aspirin may help lower risk of colorectal cancer most effectively in people who have greater lifestyle-related risk factors for the disease. The study, published in JAMA Oncology on 1 August, found that, to prevent one case of colorectal cancer…

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