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Jan 2020
Latest figures show that prostate cancer is now the most commonly diagnosed cancer in England, and has overtaken breast cancer for the first time. In 2018, there were approaching 50,000 registered cases, an increase of around 8,000 on the previous year. In that year, 316,680 cancer diagnoses were made, which is the equivalent of 868…
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Jan 2020
Cancer Research UK say that thousands of people with bowel cancer in England are ‘slipping through the net’ each year and being diagnosed too late due to a lack of NHS staff who specialise in conducting colonoscopy tests. Colonoscopies locate pre-cancerous growths in the bowel. A referral in England is harder to access than in…
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Jan 2020
Scientists at King’s College London analysed data obtained from studies relating to 60 million people over a period of eight years to determine the true effectiveness of the vaccination. The injection, which has been given to teenage girls since 2008 and boys since the start of the current school year, destroys a virus which causes…
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Jan 2020
The cooling trial called TTM2, led by researchers at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, and in which 1,900 patients worldwide took part, included seven hospitals throughout the UK. 50 per cent of the patients were cooled down, usually through the use of pads and cold water, to reduce their temperature to 33c from…
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Jan 2020
A new forecast from a collection of private health firms has warned that six million people will be left waiting for critical operations such as cataract surgery and hip and knee replacements by 2024 due to the NHS being unable to cope with increasing demand. The forecast by the Independent Healthcare Providers Network also warned…
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Jan 2020
Scientists at Cardiff University have discovered a method of killing breast, lung, prostate and other cancers in lab tests, through the harnessing of a newly-discovered part of our immune system. Although the findings, which have bee published in Nature Immunology, have not been tested on patients, the researchers say they have “enormous potential”. The scientists…
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