Clinical trial based on Richard Scolyer’s treatment offers new hope for brain cancer patients

It is hoped this pioneering approach to brain cancer will have benefits for patients around the world.

It is hoped this pioneering approach to brain cancer will have benefits for patients around the world.

Tracy Tomlinson, 58, was given the drug at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester as part of a clinical trial evaluating a new type of treatment for several types of cancer

A woman with advanced ovarian cancer has become the first patient in the world to receive a pioneering new therapy, in what is being hailed as a "landmark moment".

Chris Jones, from the Wirral, Merseyside, is the first person in the world to be treated as part of the early-stage clinical trial designed to improve the treatment of some forms of advanced lung cancer

The Israeli-developed treatment uses RNA molecules to silence mutated KRAS genes and will be tested alongside standard therapy in patients with locally advanced disease.

Two US-developed treatments for breast cancer and a degenerative eye disease will undergo large-scale clinical trials in the Greater Bay Area in a collaboration involving Hong Kong, Shenzhen and a pharmaceutical start-up founded by a former lawmaker. The agreement was formalised on Tuesday when Health Hope Pharma found