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Health Check newsletter: What do leukaemia cure claims really mean?

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Health Check newsletter: What do leukaemia cure claims really mean?

The success of gene therapy in treating a fatal form of leukaemia is cause for celebration, but we don't yet know how common such results will be

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Pensive older Black woman clutching pillow

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Breast cancer racial disparity linked to DNA repair gene expression

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Close-up of blood samples.

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Cheap blood test detects lung cancer at an early and treatable stage

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Illustration of CAR (chimeric antigen receptor) T cell immunotherapy, a process that is being developed to treat cancer. T cells (one at centre), part of the body's immune system, are taken from the patient and have their DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) modified by viruses (spiky spheres) so that they produce chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) proteins. These proteins will be specific to the patient's cancer. The modified T cells are then multiplied in the laboratory before being reintroduced to the patient.

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Pioneering leukaemia therapy still working well after 11 years

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Stained micrograph of a PAP smear showing normal stellate cells. A pap smear, or pap test (after the test's inventor George Papanicolaou), is a tissue specimen from a woman's cervix that is examined for abnormalities which may indicate infection or cancer.

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Cervical swabs could identify people at high risk of ovarian cancer

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H7W470 Kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei) pair emerging from burrow in Gibber Desert, central Australia

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Meat-eating mammals are more susceptible to cancer than herbivores

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Investigation fails to replicate most cancer biology lab findings

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cancer cell and nanotube

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Cancer cells steal energy-generating parts from immune cells

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Bubbles in blood open the brain for world-first cancer treatment

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Living sensors in our guts could provide early warnings of cancer

Gut bacteria engineered to produce a signal when they eat chunks of DNA from cancer cells could form an early warning test for the disease, tests in mice suggest

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First map of proteins in tumour cells pinpoints cancer therapy targets

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mRNA cancer therapy now in human trials after shrinking mouse tumours

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Most cancers of the oesophagus are caused by escaped stomach cells

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Galapagos tortoises use their self-destructing cells to avoid cancer

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