Tumours
Sensing cancer: real time tumour monitoring
9 Dec 2017
The traditional way of diagnosing if someone has cancer involves blood tests, medical imaging and taking tissue samples or biopsies. But a team from The Broad Institute in Massachusetts are using… Audio
Do filters make smoking more deadly?
28 Oct 2017
Could filter cigarettes, touted and sold to us by the tobacco industry since the 1960s as a safer way to smoke, and still believed by many smokers to make their habit less dangerous, actually be… Audio
P53: the gene that causes - and cures - cancer
8 Sep 2016
P53 is a cancer gene with a Jekyll and Hyde personality. It stops cancer tumours growing, but mutant versions of the gene actually cause cancer. Audio
The mathematics of cancer
30 Jan 2016
Dr Trevor Graham of Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London is using mathematics as a way to identify patterns of growth in cancerous tumours. Audio