Gastro oesophageal cancer

• Health & Medicine

Less chemotherapy better for older or frail patients with advanced stomach and oesophageal cancers

Less chemotherapy is as effective at controlling some advanced cancers for elderly patients, according to results of a Cancer Research UK funded trial. Less chemotherapy is as effective at controlling some advanced cancers for elderly patients, according to results of a Cancer Research UK funded trial.

15 May 2019

• Health & Medicine

Mapping oesophageal cancer genes leads to new drug targets

Mutations that cause oesophageal adenocarcinoma have been mapped in unprecedented detail – more than half could be targeted by drugs currently in trials. Mutations that cause oesophageal adenocarcinoma have been mapped in unprecedented detail – more than half could be targeted by drugs currently in trials.

4 February 2019