Cancer

Endoscopies could be replaced by far less invasive capsule sponge tests for half of all patients with Barrett’s oesophagus, a known precursor to...

Eleven senior researchers at the University of Cambridge have been awarded Advanced Grants from the European Research Council – the highest number of...

An ‘AI scientist’, working in collaboration with human scientists, has found that combinations of cheap and safe drugs – used to treat conditions...

Researchers in Cambridge are calling for additional scans to be added to breast screening for women with very dense breasts. This follows a large-...

A new treatment approach significantly improves survival rates for patients with aggressive, inherited breast cancers, according to Cambridge...

Women diagnosed with breast cancer who carry particular BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic variants are offered surgery to remove the ovaries and fallopian...

Metformin, a widely used and affordable diabetes drug, could prevent a form of acute myeloid leukaemia in people at high risk of the disease, a study...

Cambridge researchers have created a ‘metal detector’ algorithm that can hunt down vulnerable tumours, in a development that could one day...