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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.
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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Endometriosis: impact on ovarian cancer varies by subtype
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Endometriosis: impact on ovarian cancer varies by subtype

  • Janet Fricker
  • 28 August 2024

Women with endometriosis have a fourfold higher risk of any type of ovarian cancer and those with severe endometriosis a 10 fold higher risk compared to women who do not have the condition. The study, which involved a cohort of…

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Disadvantaged neighbourhoods may contribute to racial disparities in risk of aggressive prostate cancer
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Disadvantaged neighbourhoods may contribute to racial disparities in risk of aggressive prostate cancer

  • Janet Fricker
  • 1 August 2024

Men with prostate cancer living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods show significantly higher activity of stress-related genes than those living in other neighbourhoods. The observational study, published in JAMA Network Open, 12 July, found that neighbourhood disadvantage was positively associated with the…

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Exercise boosts anti-tumour immune cells in people with breast cancer
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Exercise boosts anti-tumour immune cells in people with breast cancer

  • Janet Fricker
  • 29 July 2024

Just 30 minutes of exercise increases the proportion of tumour-killing immune cells in the blood of people with breast cancer. The Finnish study, published in Frontiers in Immunology, 24 June, found that the proportion of CD8+ T cells and natural…

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Treatment-free remission: How today’s CML patients can aspire to a drug-free life
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Treatment-free remission: How today’s CML patients can aspire to a drug-free life

  • Janet Fricker
  • 12 July 2024

Around the start of the millennium, the therapeutic landscape for chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), a rare type of blood cancer affecting the bone marrow and white blood cells, was transformed by the arrival of a revolutionary cancer drug. This was…

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Liver biopsies can predict when and where pancreatic cancer will metastasise and may guide treatment of early-stage disease
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Liver biopsies can predict when and where pancreatic cancer will metastasise and may guide treatment of early-stage disease

  • Janet Fricker
  • 9 July 2024

Liver biopsies undertaken at the time of surgery for pancreatic cancer can be used to identify cellular and molecular markers that predict whether early pancreatic cancer will later metastasise to the liver. The study, published in Nature Medicine, June 28,…

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Common blood pressure drug could be used in AML to cut cardiotoxicity and improve response to chemotherapy
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Common blood pressure drug could be used in AML to cut cardiotoxicity and improve response to chemotherapy

  • Janet Fricker
  • 9 July 2024

Treating acute myeloid leukaemia with losartan, a commonly used blood pressure agent, achieved the dual benefits of enhancing chemotherapy efficacy and preventing cardiotoxicity in a mouse model. The study, published in Science Translational Medicine, 19 June, demonstrated both benefits were…

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