by Eve Lacroix, City University London Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As many as 81% of cancer cures touted by content creators on TikTok are fake, according to new research from City St George’s, University of London. The ethnographic study by Dr. Stephanie Alice Baker, reader in sociology, gave TikTok’s algorithm free rein to recommend videos to a user looking for...
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Doctor on the cusp of a cancer cure: Nobel Prize-winning oncologist whose discovery means killer disease could be treated with a vaccine in years to come
Dr Catherine Wu has paved the way for the development of cancer vaccinesShe ‘drew a picture of [myself] making a cure for cancer’ in second grade By CAITLIN TILLEY, HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM Dr Wu’s obsession with the immune system began after she watched bone marrow transplants as a medical internDr Wu’s obsession with the...
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New machine learning technique found to be 30% better at predicting cancer cure rates
by University of Texas at Arlington Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainWith the rapid development in computing power over the past few decades, machine-learning (ML) techniques have become popular in medical settings as a way to predict survival rates and life expectancies among patients diagnosed with diseases such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, and more recently, COVID-19....
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‘New hope’ in cancer cure race as personalised vaccine made from patients’ own TUMOURS stops relapses after four months
By MAILONLINE HEALTH TEAM PUBLISHED: 07:09 EDT, 5 July 2022 | UPDATED: 08:48 EDT, 5 July 2022 A cancer jab custom-made from patients’ own tumours has produced ‘really hopeful’ results in a trial. None of the eight head and neck cancer sufferers, who had a high chance of relapse, saw their tumours return four months after getting the vaccine. For...
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Is a cancer cure close? Researchers at Fred Hutchinson think so
The microscopic particles that might change the world are being carted about on a medical campus near Seattle’s Lake Union. The mode of transport: a plastic lunch cooler. The little coolers are ubiquitous at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, which four decades ago pioneered a groundbreaking treatment for blood cancers — the bone-marrow transplant, now an older...