Revolutionary skin cancer vaccine offers hope of cure for British patients

The cancer vaccine harnesses the same tech used in Covid jabs (Image: Getty) A revolutionary skin cancer vaccine being tested on British patients offers hope of a cure for the devastating disease. The world’s first personalised cancer jab for melanoma may also be effective against lung, bladder and kidney cancer. Harnessing the same technology used … Read more

‘Cancer docs said I had two years to live – I’m still here 13 years later’

Positive patient Gary was told he had two years to live – 14 years ago (Image: Prostate Cancer UK) Prostate cancer drug trials could be accelerated “to save time, money and lives”, research suggests. Evidence showing how much a medicine can extend sufferers’ lives, known as overall survival, is usually considered the gold standard for … Read more

Massive cancer breakthrough as tiny needle could pave the way to miracle cure

A devie that uses “nanoscopic” needles to inject or extract a sample from a living cell has been hailed as a breakthrough forcancer research. Techniques used to study single cells ­usually destroy them but the “nanopipette” allows researchers to extract tiny samples from a living cell without killing it. This will let them study the … Read more

Cancer breakthrough as scientists can now study living tumour cells

A device that uses nanoscopic needles to inject or extract a sample from a living cell has been hailed as a breakthrough for cancer research. Techniques used to study single cells usually destroy them but the “nanopipette” allows researchers to extract tiny samples from a living cell without killing it. This will enable them to … Read more