Engineered herpes virus shows promise against advanced melanoma
New Scientist - 08-Jul-2025RP1 shrinks deep skin tumours and may soon win FDA approval as a new melanoma treatment
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This section will maintain key information and medical advancements relating to cancer – how to prevent it and what treatments are available.
Not every new story - just major breakthroughs and studies on ways to prevent. Particularly will be focusing on research results in humans - lots of promising treatments unfortunately never make it from the lab, through human trials, and onto the market.
Did you know? A handful of your cells turn cancerous EVERY DAY - but your immune system tracks them down and kills them before they turn into large-scale cancer.
RP1 shrinks deep skin tumours and may soon win FDA approval as a new melanoma treatment
Some herbal medicines also showed risky DNA changes
New RNA method may cut costs and simplify cancer treatment by skipping lab-grown cell steps
New MRI-based tech may better detect tumour changes without contrast dye in brain cancer patients
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German biotech launches to develop radiotherapy-based treatments
Omid Veiseh on how cytokine implants could revolutionize cancer treatment
Biopharmaceutical company focused on progressing XCART which targets patient-specific tumor neoantigens
Company developing safer, cheaper, consistent and durable CAR-T drugs for hematological and solid tumors
Including gene editing, immunotherapy, modified viruses, vaccines, personalised medicine, and nanotechnology
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