Virtual reality-style goggles that let doctors ‘see’ inside the body can spare patients with facial tumours from disfiguring paralysis. The goggles reveal the exact layout of delicate nerves surrounding growths, helping surgeons avoid damaging them during surgery. About 30 UK patients have already been among the first in the world to benefit from the cutting-edge technology … Read more
Routine CT scans may catch 70% of lung tumours early: New research could save thousands of lives Health experts are demanding the Government brings in routine CT scanning Scanning smokers and ex-smokers ‘extremely effective’ in catching cancer It comes following research that CT scans catch 70 per cent of cancers early By Elliot Mulligan For … Read more
Friday night’s I’m A Celebrity saw Russell Watson open up to his campmates about his two terrifying brain tumours. The tenor, 53, who battled two benign pituitary tumours back-to-back between 2006 and 2007, told how he ‘saw the light’ while lying in an MIR scanner. Speaking to his fellow celebrities in Gwrych Castle about his … Read more
A high-tech ‘pink drink’, swallowed hours before surgery, is helping surgeons spot aggressive brain cancers, by making tumours glow in the dark. The innovation, now being used by neurosurgeons across the UK, doubles the chances doctors will find – and remove – all the cancer, halting progression of the disease. The drink, called Gliolan or … Read more
Half of advanced cancer patients given new drug saw their tumours stop growing or disappear completely as first clinical trial provides ‘encouraging’ results Researchers in the UK tested berzosertib on 40 patients with advanced tumours Despite being an early trial to evaluate safe dosage, results were ‘encouraging’ Berzosertib works by blocking the protein in cancer cells that … Read more
A woman who had 16 brain tumours admits she thought her headaches and sleepless nights were down to her being a new mother. Lisa Shurety, 39, from Waltham Abbey, Essex, was given just five months to live when cancerous tumours were discovered in her brain, pelvis and lungs after she collapsed in February 2018. The … Read more
A mother whose body is covered in thousands of tumours has told how strangers regularly hurl abuse at her in the street. Ashley Jernigan, of Montgomery, Alabama, suffers from an aggressive form of the genetic disorder neurofibromatosis. The 35-year-old was diagnosed when she hit puberty and the condition quickly left her entire body covered in lumps. … Read more
A cancer vaccine that teaches the body to fight tumours has put three lymphoma patients into remission. The vaccine is injected directly into the tumour and teaches the immune system to destroy it, as well as seek other cancerous cells. Researchers tested it on 11 patients with lymphoma and said some were in full remission … Read more