Life-saving prostate scan can pinpoint cancer cells and identify men who need more powerful treatment, research suggests

Scientists have found radioactive molecule which sticks to prostate cancer cellsLights them up in a scan and is 27 per cent more accurate then routine methodsTechnique detects when prostate cancer…

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New blood test could spare thousands of lung cancer patients from chemotherapy by spotting if tumour will spread

Three studies conducted as part of Cancer Research UK £14m TRACERx projectResearchers found amount of tumour cells in blood predicted cancer's evolutionDiscovered lung tumours release multiple cells to confuse our…

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