If it’s not one thing, it’s another. While everybody knows that too much time in the sun massively increases the chances of developing skin cancer, new research suggests that a compound found in most sunscreens may also increase the chances of acquiring melanomas. Terrific. We’re screwed either way.
Cancer researchers have found that certain types of older dental X-rays may increase the incidence of the most common type of brain tumour in the United States: meningioma.
Everyone can’t stop talking about how nanotechnology is the future of healthcare, but so far we’ve not seen many useful applications. Finally, here’s one: these nano-scale gold stars can kill cancer cells dead without ever entering them.
Here’s one way to reduce testicular cancer: make people choose between using a BlackBerry and examining their balls to prevent death.
One of the worst things you can hear from you doctor is that you, or a loved one, has “triple negative” breast cancer. It stubbornly refuses to respond to the best treatments available, so doctors have to resort to chemotherapy. It strikes 16 per cent of breast cancer patients, most of them younger than 40. But we may finally have figured out how to beat it.
