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This study is asking people about their experiences of having radiotherapy for prostate or breast cancer. It is also asking them about their travel to hospital to find out about the impact of ...
Research and clinical trials for chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) Research is looking into the causes and treatment of CML. Find out about the latest UK research and how you can take part in trials.
Children aged 0-14, and young people aged 15-24, each account for less than one per cent of all new cancer cases in the UK (2017-2019). [1-4] Adults aged 25-49 contribute around a tenth (9%) of all ...
The ASICA app was designed as an application to use on a computer tablet a few years ago. The purpose of the app was to help people who had melanoma treatment to do regular check ups of their skin. It ...
Caroline, who lives just outside Glasgow with her husband Phil, is a devoted mother and advocate for people affected by children and young people’s cancers.
Plerixafor is a type of immunotherapy.Laboratory studies had shown that it may help immune cells get into the cancers, and help kill them. When this trial was done, plerixafor was already being used ...
Researchers around the world are looking at preventing, diagnosing and treating of bowel cancer. Bowel cancer means cancer that starts in the large bowel (colon) and the back passage (rectum). Go to ...
If you are waiting a long time for cancer treatment, you might consider travelling to another country to have treatment sooner. If you are thinking about having cancer treatment in another country, it ...
What we eat and drink can affect our health, including our risk of cancer. Your overall diet (what you eat day-to-day) is more important than any one food.
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This trial was done to find out more about the best way to treat children and young people with a group of soft tissue sarcomas called non rhabdomyosarcomas. In this trial, doctors treated children ...
This trial was for people with oesophageal cancer or gastro oesophageal junction cancer.They were all due to have surgery. They were put into one of two treatment groups at random.. One group had ...