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Inside a mouse pancreatic tumour and the red bits are the Listeria bacteria delivering the tetanus to the tumour cells.

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Pancreatic cancer treated in mice by loading tumour cells with tetanus

A new type of therapy aims to exploit immunity gained from childhood tetanus vaccinations to make the immune system attack hard-to-treat pancreatic cancer

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Caenorhabditis elegans

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Microscopic worms on a chip could be trained to sniff out cancer

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Technology

Help cancer research by playing the GENIGMA phone puzzle game

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Health Check newsletter: A U-turn in Caesarean policy

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DNA sequencing peaks show on computer mornitor

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How Australia has cut child cancer deaths – and hopes to get to zero

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

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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

A DNA analysis of cervical cells taken from routine smear tests could identify people who might benefit from additional screening for ovarian cancer

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Life

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 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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