Video • Clonal somatic mutations
How does cancer grow? Genetic mapping gives new insight
Researchers from the UK and Sweden have found that individual prostate tumours contain a previously unknown range of genetic variation.
Cancer
News • Live bacterial therapeutics
Engineering the microbiome to potentially cure disease
Development of effective live bacterial therapeutics may depend more on using and re-introducing native microbes that can stick around than how the microbes are modified.
News • Throat surgery
After laryngectomy: AI screens voice pathologies
Striving to improve the patient’s quality of life after laryngectomy, researchers conducted a study, during which they searched for pathologies in patients’ voices using artificial intelligence (AI).
News • Liquid biopsy for early detection of brain tumours
Glioblastoma: Mathematical modelling could lead to simple blood test
The development of a simple blood test for glioblastomas could mean earlier diagnosis and more effective and personalised treatment options against the most common type of malignant brain cancer.
News • Determining aggressiveness
New discovery improves prostate cancer prognosis
Researchers in Sweden have now discovered a faster and easier way to determine who has an aggressive form of prostate cancer, and who has not.
News • Identification of treatment barriers
Immunotherapy: The right environment for fighting cancer
Cancer immunotherapy is a successful treatment form in oncology, but it doesn't work for every patient. One problem may be the lack of a specific type of immune cell in the tumor, researchers found.
Article • Diversity, transparency, flexibility
Building trustworthy AI systems for cancer imaging
Building artificial intelligence (AI) tools that clinicians and patients can trust, and easily use and understand, are core to the technology being successfully deployed in healthcare settings.
Article • Multiparametric ultrasound
Experts assess usefulness of MPUS in the diagnostic conundrum
Multiparametric ultrasound (MPUS) has proven its value in the abdomen – now, the technique is increasingly moving towards peripheral areas such as breast and testis imaging, experts showed in a dedicated session at ECR 2022.
News • Better outcomes, fewer costs
Experts propose less invasive bowel cancer treatment approach
New research suggests that providing a break in treatment to patients with advanced bowel cancer could not only benefit a patient’s quality of life but could also help reduce costs.
Article • Multimodal analysis approach
Novel AI model predicts thyroid cancer from routine ultrasound images
An artificial intelligence (AI) model combining four methods of machine learning (ML) to accurately detect thyroid cancer from routine ultrasound image data has been developed by US researchers.
News • AI approach to colorectal tumors
Deep learning identifies molecular patterns of cancer
A new AI platform can analyze genomic data extremely quickly, picking out key patterns to classify different types of colorectal tumors and improve the drug discovery process.
News • Automated adenoma analysis
AI finds more precancerous polyps than traditional colonoscopy
Colonoscopies performed with AI support may yield an increase in the overall rate of detection of adenoma, or cancerous and precancerous polyps, by 27% in average-risk patients, according to new data.
News • Prevention improvement
Bowel cancer: most cases diagnosed outside of screening programmes
More than 70% of patients with bowel cancer are not diagnosed using screening programmes meaning diagnoses are often made late, when the cancer is at an advanced stage, according to new research.
News • HCC in vitro research
Organoids give new clues to liver cancer progression
Newly engineered in vitro tumour models open ways to better understand the crosstalk between liver cancer cells and their microenvironment, researchers from Singapore found.
Video • Bowel cancer removal
Sustainability: UK surgeons perform first ‘net zero’ operation
Surgeons completed the first documented ‘net zero’ operation in the NHS, combining evidence-based approaches and documents using a carbon output calculator developed specifically for this task.
Article • Glioblastoma analysis
Revealing tell-tale signs of deadly brain cancer
A new way of differentiating healthy from diseased cells could pave the way for more personalised treatment for patients diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a common and aggressive type of brain tumour.
Article • Detection and diagnosis of cancer
The ‘smart’ future of cytology
A combination of digital pathology and quantitative biomarker analysis in the emerging concept of ‘smart’ cytology has a potential role in the detection and diagnosis of cancer.
News • Dermatology tool
Skin cancer detection: handheld device as painless alternative to biopsy
A new handheld device has been developed to painlessly identify skin cancers using millimeter-wave imaging. This could slash the rate of unnecessary biopsies.
Article • Gender inequalities
Breaking the bias: a woman’s perspective of cancer research
In an online event to mark International Women’s Day, five women at various stages of their careers in cancer care discussed the hurdles they had to overcome – often because of their gender – and their determination to succeed.
Article • Patient Reported Outcomes
Going “PRO” to advance cancer treatment
Involving cancer patients more closely in the treatment pathway can modify care and deliver better outcomes. Carefully designed questionnaires and treatment response monitoring are helping clinicians take therapies to a new level.
Article • Clinical computational tools
Managing cancer more effectively
Computational approaches are being applied on enormous amounts of data from sequencing technologies to develop tools to help clinicians manage cancer more effectively.
Article • Advances in cancer risk assessment and prevention
French oncologists pick up the pace after pandemic time-out
Personalised screening, data-driven aproaches: In a dedicated press conference in Paris, French oncologists presented promising research that might bring hope for many cancer patients.
Article • Patient communication in oncology
“Be accepted”: A new tool to support radiologists and female cancer patients
Informing a patient about a cancer diagnosis is never an easy task. An Austrian patient has developed a solution that will help radiologists break the bad news as smoothly as possible and guide women through their patient journey.
News • Clinical trial
Prostate cancer: Researchers explore new radiotherapy approach
A different way of treating people with prostate cancer will be investigated by researchers at the University of Leeds in a new clinical trial funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research.
News • Companion treatment
Magnetic therapy to enhance breast cancer chemotherapy
A team of researchers from Singapore has developed a novel magnetic therapy that serves as an effective companion therapy to chemotherapy to enhance treatment outcome for breast cancer.
