Fri, Nov 27 2020

A blood test designed to detect more than 50 types of cancer at an early stage will be trialled by the NHS. More than 165,000 people in England will be offered the tests from next year. If successful, the NHS hopes to expand it to 1m people from…

The R number for coronavirus has fallen to between 0.9 and 1 for the first time since mid-August, which means the epidemic is thought to be no longer growing. 'R' is calculated by the government's scientific advisers, and represents how many extra…

Endocrine Abstracts

Searchable abstracts of presentations at key conferences in endocrinology ISSN 1470-3947 (print) | ISSN 1479-6848 (online) Previous issue | Volume 72 | UKINETS2020 Ricky Fenn, Alexander Pawsey & Gaurav Kapur Hessa Boharoon, Mustafa Al Ansari…

A new blood test that could help detect the early signs of more than 50 types of cancer is set to be piloted across England by the NHS. The Galleri blood test will be piloted with 165,000 patients after research suggested it could find many types…

A new chemotherapy-free drug combination for people with a rare type of bowel cancer has been approved for NHS use in England. The combination of encorafenib (Braftovi) and cetuximab (Erbitux) will be the first approved bowel cancer therapy to…