Drug resistance

• Health & Medicine

Newcastle scientist tells Minister of new cancer hope

Understanding how prostate cancers become resistant to treatment should bring about a new breed of potent anti-cancer drugs, a leading Cancer Research UK scientist will tell Health Secretary Alan Milburn, MPs and fellow researchers. Understanding how prostate cancers become resistant to treatment should bring about a new breed of potent anti-cancer drugs, a leading Cancer Research UK scientist will tell Health Secretary Alan Milburn, MPs and fellow researchers.

6 November 2002

• Health & Medicine

Stem cell step forward in cancer treatment

Cancer Research UK scientists have developed a new technique for transplanting stem cells into patients which could improve treatments for advanced leukaemia and lymphoma. Cancer Research UK scientists have developed a new technique for transplanting stem cells into patients which could improve treatments for advanced leukaemia and lymphoma.

28 October 2002