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Call for genetic screening for all breast cancer patients
3rd October 2019
A lifetime model evaluating the financial, health and social impact of multigene testing at diagnosis for all breast cancer patients was found to save lives and be extremely cost-effective for both UK and US health systems.
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Therapy for high-grade glioma
2nd April 2019
A phase I clinical trial that set out to assess the safety of a new combination therapy for a type of aggressive brain tumour has found the treatment to be well tolerated in patients. The trial used a treatment combination of ADI-PEG20, pemetrexed and cisplatin, which showed encouraging efficacy in patients with recurrent high-grade gliomas (HGGs), a disease for which little progress has been made over the last few decades.
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BCI at the 60th ASH Annual Meeting
14th January 2019
Researchers from our Centre for Haemato-Oncology attended the 60th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition to showcase our blood cancer research.
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Tackling the deadliest cancer type
30th November 2018
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. Lung cancer is one of the main cancer types on which research is focused here at the Barts CRUK Centre.
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Immunotherapy shows promise for patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer
17th October 2018
Immunotherapy has been shown to confer an encouraging survival benefit in patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (mTNBC).
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VOICE 2018: From bedside to bench
12th September 2018
BCI held the 2018 VOICE (Vision On Information, Confidence & Engagement) course- a study week that aims to take patient advocates from bedside to bench by providing an introduction to basic cancer biology, research terminology and study design.
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