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Rachel is a freelance science writer, based in London. She writes for a variety of publications on scientific areas, including the biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences. She has written extensively on cancer therapeutics and other aspects of cancer care.
Innovations in supportive care: cancer treatment side effects
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Innovations in supportive care: cancer treatment side effects

  • Rachel Brazil
  • 18 June 2021

The association between cancer treatments and dramatic side effects such as uncontrolled nausea and vomiting retains a powerful hold over public perceptions and parts of the media. Recent decades have seen a big improvement in many of these, partly due…

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Can gene therapy be made to work against solid tumours?
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Can gene therapy be made to work against solid tumours?

  • Rachel Brazil
  • 25 March 2021

Gene therapy to treat cancer has been on the research agenda for three decades, with the first examples having been developed in the 1990s, according to Hrvoje Miletic, Senior Consultant in Neuropathology at the Bergen/Haukeland University Hospital in Norway. “But…

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Oncolytic viruses – a new wave of therapeutic possibilities
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Oncolytic viruses – a new wave of therapeutic possibilities

  • Rachel Brazil
  • 21 December 2020

Going back to the nineteenth century there were reports that infectious diseases seemed to provide brief periods of remission for cancer patients. One case from 1896 reported that the enlarged spleen of a woman with “myelogenous leukemia” shrank to nearly…

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Cancer-associated thrombosis: awareness and action can save many lives
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Cancer-associated thrombosis: awareness and action can save many lives

  • Rachel Brazil
  • 21 November 2020

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the second most common cause of death in people with cancer, yet it has received far less attention than other possible complications, such as infection or neutropenic sepsis. This situation is beginning to change, with events…

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Will artificial intelligence revolutionise cancer therapeutics and care?
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Will artificial intelligence revolutionise cancer therapeutics and care?

  • Rachel Brazil
  • 8 September 2020

The first machine learning application in healthcare was approved by the FDA as recently as 2019 to analyse MRI images of the heart. In oncology, applications that make use of artificial intelligence (AI) are appearing thick and fast, from improving…

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Are tumour-agnostic approaches the future for oncology?
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Are tumour-agnostic approaches the future for oncology?

  • Rachel Brazil
  • 18 June 2020

According to Francesco Pignatti, Head of Oncology at the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the term ‘tumour agnostic’ is a misnomer. The definition of agnostic in ancient greek, he argues, is ‘lacking in knowledge’. But with these new approaches, it’s not…

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