Cancer

Personalise treatment programmes aim to kill cancer cells while preserving healthy tissue

Dr Paul Kavanagh asks in the course of your working day, what else can you do which offers more potential to make such a powerful positive impact on a patient’s health than talking to them about their smoking habit? 2016 has offered us a lot to reflect on.

300 cases are diagnosed annually in Ireland and 90 women die from the disease

Scans could reduce the number of those who are over-diagnosed by 5%

Cancer stem cells more resistant to radiation-induced cell death

Using first-line therapy, the best impact on outcomes occurs early in treatment

Technique has been refined using life-size 'phantom' test device

Five specific features were associated with colorectal cancer before diagnosis

Unclear if this approach worked, and not fully understood how best to carry it out

Gary Culliton hears about the breakthrough in cancer research taking place at UCD’s Systems Biology Ireland from its Director Prof Walter Kolch, who addressed the BioPharma Ambition Conference in Dublin last month As only one third of cancer patients respond to drug treatment, Prof Walter Kolch is trying to improve this rate by customising drug therapies for individual patients, all