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Improving outcomes in elderly patients taking multiple medications
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Improving outcomes in elderly patients taking multiple medications

  • Janet Fricker
  • 24 March 2023

For older patients with cancer, taking multiple medications can result in toxic chemotherapy side effects and even the need to stop cancer treatment. The cohort study, published in Cancer, 24th…

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Localised prostate cancer: active monitoring offers valid option
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Localised prostate cancer: active monitoring offers valid option

  • Janet Fricker
  • 24 March 2023

Active monitoring of localised prostate cancer has the same high rates of survival after 15 years as radiotherapy or surgery. The ProtecT trial, presented at the European Association of Urology…

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Radiotherapy can be safely omitted in older women with low-risk breast cancer
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Radiotherapy can be safely omitted in older women with low-risk breast cancer

  • Janet Fricker
  • 10 March 2023

Leaving out radiotherapy does not affect survival after breast-conserving surgery in older women with low-risk hormone-receptor-positive early breast cancer. Ten-year outcomes for the PRIME II trial, published in the New…

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Plant-based diets cut risk of prostate cancer progression and recurrence by over 50%
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Plant-based diets cut risk of prostate cancer progression and recurrence by over 50%

  • Janet Fricker
  • 9 March 2023

Prostate cancer patients who consume the highest intakes of plant-based foods lower their risk of progression and recurrence. The study, abstract 392 presented at the 2023 American Society of Clinical…

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New prostate cancer blood test combining PSA with epigenetic test could reduce biopsies
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New prostate cancer blood test combining PSA with epigenetic test could reduce biopsies

  • Janet Fricker
  • 23 February 2023

A non-invasive prostate cancer combination test has been shown to have a positive predictive value of 93%*, meaning that out of 100 patients testing positive for prostate cancer 93 will…

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Telomere shortening mediates tumour suppression
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Telomere shortening mediates tumour suppression

  • Janet Fricker
  • 23 February 2023

Shortening of telomeres, as occurs naturally with ageing, works through a pathway that involves mitochondria-activated immune responses to ultimately eliminate precancerous cells. The US study, published in Nature (8 February…

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Epidemiological study sheds light on complex link between ovarian cancer and ovulation
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Epidemiological study sheds light on complex link between ovarian cancer and ovulation

  • Janet Fricker
  • 9 February 2023

Women who ovulate for longer over the course of their lifetimes may have a higher risk of developing ovarian cancer. The international epidemiological study, published in Journal of the National…

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Cancer could overtake cardiovascular disease as leading cause of death in type 2 diabetes
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Cancer could overtake cardiovascular disease as leading cause of death in type 2 diabetes

  • Janet Fricker
  • 9 February 2023

Mortality from cancer has increased among older people with type 2 diabetes. The UK cohort study, published in Diabetologica, 24 January, found people with type 2 diabetes were at particular…

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Study highlights need to reanalyse genomics and genetics of metastatic tumours
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Study highlights need to reanalyse genomics and genetics of metastatic tumours

  • Janet Fricker
  • 27 January 2023

Around one third of breast cancer patients showed molecular subtype shifts (especially involving luminal cancers) between their primary and metastatic tumours. The study, published in Nature Cancer, on December 30th,…

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Current cervical cancer screening paradigm fails older women
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Current cervical cancer screening paradigm fails older women

  • Janet Fricker
  • 26 January 2023

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,…

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