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Scientists identify strategy to make chemotherapy more effective for women with ovarian cancer
7th March 2025
Scientists have discovered a potential way to improve chemotherapy’s effect on ovarian cancer by manipulating specific immune cells around the tumour, potentially offering a way to help thousands of women with ovarian cancer benefit more from standard therapies and potentially delay relapses.
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Video: Engineering a Tumour on a Chip
29th August 2024
Meet Dr Joash Joy, a postdoctoral researcher working on engineering artificial tumours to explore how cancer therapies can be made more effective.
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Video: Illuminating the city of cells inside cancer
6th July 2023
A new technique produces stunning, nebula-like images of tumours that provide crucial insights into cancer, how it behaves and how our immune cells attempt to fight it.
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New insight into how a faulty protein drives lung cancer gives clues to why some therapies fail
15th June 2023
The findings could help explain why cancer drugs that target the molecule MET work for some people but not others.
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Ovarian cancer’s protective barrier: how the tumour matrix teaches cells to disarm immune attack
15th May 2023
The results suggest new strategies to overcome the cancer’s defences and treat patients more effectively
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The REMODEL project: Remodelling tumour microenvironments to improve immunotherapy
12th October 2022
Professor Fran Balkwill from Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary University of London has received a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Frontier Research grant of over £2 million to investigate the most effective ways to remodel cancers to enhance the effects of immunotherapy.
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