by John McMillan | Apr 17, 2026 | Cancer
Laurence Roope, University of Oxford; Fiorella Parra-Mujica, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Philip Clarke, University of Oxford Imagine a stark choice. You can save one person who is likely to live another 30 years. Or you can save several people who may each live...
by John McMillan | Apr 10, 2026 | Cancer
Justin Stebbing, Anglia Ruskin University Marriage, it turns out, may come with a side‑effect no one puts in the vows: people who have been married seem less likely to develop cancer than those who have never married at all. That is the provocative finding from a...
by John McMillan | Feb 20, 2026 | Cancer
Ahmed Elbediwy, Kingston University and Nadine Wehida, Kingston University Cancer treatment follows a familiar pattern: doctors spot symptoms, diagnose the disease and start treatment. But scientists are now exploring a radical shift in how we tackle cancer. Instead...
by John McMillan | Jan 30, 2026 | Cancer, Health
Justin Stebbing, Anglia Ruskin University Cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are two of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, but they rarely strike the same person. For years, epidemiologists have noticed that people with cancer seem less likely to develop Alzheimer’s,...
by John McMillan | Dec 19, 2025 | Cancer
Vikram Niranjan, University of Limerick When I worked on the latest Global Burden of Disease cancer study, a global project that tracks cancer patterns and deaths across countries, I found myself pausing as the numbers loaded on the screen. Even as a scientist used to...
by John McMillan | Nov 14, 2025 | Cancer
Justin Stebbing, Anglia Ruskin University Grey hair is an inevitable hallmark of ageing. It’s a visual reminder of the passing years and all the bodily changes that accompany it. But emerging scientific research is challenging this simple narrative – revealing that...
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