A new software, CADU, developed by world-leading AI experts shows incredible promise in its ability to revolutionise the diagnosis of oesophageal cancer, one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Strongly linked to smoking and drinking, oesophageal cancer kills over 8,000 people per year in the UK alone. Less than 20% of those diagnosed will survive…
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Camera in a pill: the latest silver bullet?
Capsule camera endoscopy is a diagnostic technology recently introduced to the NHS in an attempt to diagnose colon and bowel cancer earlier. An alternative to a traditional endoscopy, capsule camera technology is a small camera, the size of a vitamin pill (23 mm), which a patient swallows. As the capsule travels through the body, it…
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Review: Clouds
If you have Disney+, I’m sure you will have seen their latest biopic, Clouds. The film tells the true story of Zach Sobiech (Fin Argus), a high school senior who uploaded his song ‘Clouds’ to YouTube and it became a viral hit, leading to a recording contract and a concert performance. Clouds has all the…
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Major bone cancer treatment breakthrough from UEA researcher
New hope for future bone cancer treatment as researchers take the first step in preventing the spread of cancer. Recent research into osteosarcoma led by Dr Darrell Green from UEA Norwich Medical School and Dr Katie Finegan from the University of Manchester has been hallmarked as the first major finding in bone cancer for forty…
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Pink Flamingos in Norwich
As October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, breast cancer awareness charities are working together to raise awareness and the importance of regular checking and screening for early detection. Across Norwich, pink flamingos have popped up with ransom notes, but not in a hostage situation. It is done as part of a distinctive campaign to raise…
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Death by fake drugs
Before a drug is deemed suitable for human use it has to undergo rigorous testing, which can take up to 12 years. However, counterfeit and poor-quality medicines have surged the global pharmaceutical market and are thought to be responsible for the deaths of over 250,000 children each year. Many falsified medicines include anti-malaria drugs,…
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Cancer therapy wins Nobel Prize for Medicine
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to two immunologists who have discovered how to fight advanced skin cancer with the body’s own immune system. Professor James P. Allison and Professor Tasuku Honjo will share the Nobel prize sum of nine million Swedish kronor (£763,866) for their discovery of immune checkpoint…
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Milo Filtness on breast cancer and her mum
It’s very hard to start a conversation about cancer, because as far as medical conditions go, it has a huge amount of emotional weight. Firstly, because one in two people are diagnosed with cancer every year in the UK, so chances are that whoever you talk to about it, they have been personally affected. Secondly,…
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Obesity: a big problem
Cancer Research UK faced some difficulty over their campaign adverts, which described obesity as a major cause of cancer after smoking. A great many were upset by the campaign, believing that it had set out to ‘fat-shame’ individuals by suggesting that obesity is easily preventable. Controversy also arose among medical experts and nutritionists who hold…
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