No — stop it. Close that tab. Stop reading that. The Apple rumour de jour — a 4.6-inch iPhone 5 — is the same reheated broth some filthy cook serves yearly. It wasn’t true last year, or the year before. Here’s why it’s still BS.
You’d think that a tumour shrinking would be considered good news for anyone suffering from cancer. Maybe not. Scientists have found that a type of cancer treatment aimed at shrinking tumours can actually make them spread more efficiently and kill patients quicker.
A new sprayable reagent has been developed by Japanese researchers that makes small tumours, typically missed by CT scans, visibly glow within minutes of being applied — making them easier to spot and remove during surgery.
What would a tumour feel like? Sadness? Despair? Hope? Surgeons will soon know, thanks to a device invented by Leeds University, England, which lets users judge the cancerous state of tumors, along with the best way to go about treatment.
A 2000 study called The Hallmarks of Cancer is the most-referenced paper in the journal Cell, one of the most influential journals in the world. Turns out that paper might be wrong.
Interphone researchers are conducting the largest-ever study investigating if mobile phones cause cancer, examining studies from 6,400 tumours in patients from 13 countries. Final results are expected in early 2009, but the preliminary ones are badbadbad.
