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Pancreatic cancer's killer trick offers treatment hope

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Pancreatic cancer's killer trick offers treatment hope

Each pancreatic tumour evolves its own mechanism for generating the energy that lets it proliferate wildly. Good news: we have drugs that target the process

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Cancer diagnosis as simple as a pregnancy test

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Cancer diagnosis as simple as a pregnancy test

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Solar DNA tests detect cancer without electricity

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Solar DNA tests detect cancer without electricity

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Testicular time bomb: Older dads' mutant sperm

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Testicular time bomb: Older dads' mutant sperm

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Fishing rod reels brain tumour cells to their death

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'Prostate cancer test has been misused for money'

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'Prostate cancer test has been misused for money'

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Kids miss out on cancer drugs because of lack of trials

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More harm than good? Antioxidants defend cancer in body

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Infectious cancer preserves dog genes for 11,000 years

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Infectious cancer preserves dog genes for 11,000 years

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Giant leaps of evolution make cancer cells deadly

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Giant leaps of evolution make cancer cells deadly

Tumour cells take big genetic jumps called macromutations to become invasive "hopeful monsters". Treatment to block that evolution could be the next step

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Counting the hidden victims of medicine

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Cheap DNA: What the $1000-genome means for you

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The physicist fighting cancer's social network

Opinion

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