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Rectal cancer patients could be spared surgery

Four in five patients with early and intermediate-stage rectal cancer could be spared life-changing surgery by giving them a combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, a UCL-led trial has found. The STAR-TREC trial (Save the rectum by watchful waiting or TransAnal surgery following (chemo)Radiotherapy versus Total mesorectal excision for early Rectal Cancer) found that chemoradiotherapy, with […]

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Some prostate cancers could be diagnosed from MRI alone

New research from UCL and UCLH suggests that prostate cancer in some men can be identified from an MRI scan with a very high degree of confidence, potentially reducing the need for a biopsy. Four experienced radiologists, working both individually and as a group, identified a subset of patients in whom they were ‘99 per […]

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