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Radiosensitisation strategies for the treatment of bladder cancer

More than 10,000 people a year are diagnosed with urinary bladder cancer in the UK. Over a third of these patients present with muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), and require more intensive treatment than those with non-muscle invasive disease. Radical cystectomy, which involves removal of the bladder and distal ureters, and reconstruction of the urinary […]

Dr Richard Walshaw, Professor Ananya Choudhury

University of Manchester

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Ultrasound-mediated targeted drug delivery in cancer patients – fact or fiction?

Despite considerable global investment towards prevention and improving outcomes, cancer remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide; as recently as 2010, only a modest decrease (-13.8%) in standardised death rates due to cancer have been observed since 1990. In 2009 cancer cost the European Union $126 billon in healthcare cost and productivity losses […]

Paul Lyon, Prateek Katti

Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford

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MRI assessment of response to treatment in NAC

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is offered to women with large, locally invasive breast tumours with an aim to downstage the tumour and enable breast conserving surgery. Traditionally it has been given to women with locally advanced disease, but increasingly now it is being offered to women with much smaller cancers and lower stage disease (IIb or […]

Dr E A M O'Flynn

Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden Hospital

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