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Latest Cancer care

Breakthrough in preventing chemotherapy-induced hair loss

By Liz Wells 11 July 2025

A promising and novel method to aid the scalp cooling process in the prevention of hair loss in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy has been revealed by new research.

GPS

NHS launches drive to catch one of the most lethal cancers

By Liz Wells 18 June 2025

Hundreds of GP Practices will comb patient records to offer urgent tests to people most at risk of pancreatic cancer, the fifth most common cause of cancer deaths in the UK.

CANCER CARE

Challenges facing radiology and clinical oncology laid bare

By Liz Wells 05 June 2025

The NHS is continuing to struggle to train, recruit and retain enough radiologists and oncologists, new research reveals.

CANCER CARE

New radiotherapy machines rolled out to 28 hospitals

By Lee Peart 27 May 2025

Twenty eight hospitals are to receive new radiotherapy machines from August under a £70m investment in improving cancer care.

CANCER CARE

NHS rolls out five-minute 'super-jab' for 15 cancers

By Liz Wells 30 April 2025

The NHS has become the first health service in Europe to offer a new cancer jab for more than a dozen types of the disease following approval from the MHRA.

PERFORMANCE TARGETS

NHS performance improving as high demand continues

By Liz Wells 10 April 2025

The total waiting list for procedures and appointments fell to 7.40 million in February, down from 7.43 million in January, the sixth consecutive monthly decline.

ESTATES

New £38m radiotherapy unit to improve access to cancer care

By Lee Peart 31 March 2025

A £38m radiotherapy unit in Abergavenny will bring additional radiotherapy capacity to south east Wales cancer treatment services.

TECHNOLOGY

AI trial to tackle breast cancer launched

By Liz Wells 04 February 2025

Nearly 700,000 women across the country will take part in a trial to test how AI tools can be used to catch breast cancer cases earlier, the DHSC has announced.

PREVENTION

Phoenix Hospital Group launches full body MRI screening

By Liz Wells 28 January 2025

Phoenix Hospital Group, a private healthcare provider located in Harley Street, has launched a full body MRI cancer screening service.

THE ROYAL MARSDEN NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Robot-guided biopsies tested on UK patients

By Liz Wells 09 January 2025

Researchers at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust treating sarcoma have looked at how, using robotic guidance, multiple biopsies can be taken across different parts of a tumour and analysed whi...