Tag: cancer

If you happened to watch the somewhat divisive Venom last year, you might have enjoyed Tom Hardy’s performance. You might not have enjoyed its feeble screenplay. Either way, one thing you may not have remembered is when Hardy’s Eddie Brock, shortly after hearing the voice of the parasite, is told in his own voice that […]

Tisotumab vedotin (TV), an innovative new drug, has shown promise in treating six different types of cancers. A team at the The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, led a Phase I/II clinical trial comprising of nearly 150 people from the UK, US, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden. TV was […]

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute have genetically modified chickens to produce medical drugs in their egg whites, and hope this method could one day revolutionise the way in which pharmaceuticals are manufactured. Protein based therapies can be lifesaving treatments for a range of diseases, and are currently the fastest growing segment of […]

Image Credit: Steve Daniels Oxford University researchers have recently pioneered a new technique in the fight against cancer. They utilised a virus, called enadenotucirev, which was developed to fight carcinoma; cancer of the epithelial cells of the skin and organ lining. The treatment’s innovation was to allow the virus to target not just the cancer […]

Image Credit: Rhoda Baer A multidisciplinary team of medics and engineers at the University of Oxford have designed and tested a novel and potentially highly significant cancer targeting process, which uses ultrasound to direct chemotherapeutic agents to tumours. The findings of this study have been published in the Lancet, with the potential to increase the efficacy […]

As one of the most complex and varied diseases known to mankind, depicting cancer “properly” in film is never going to be easy. If you treat the subject too light-heartedly, you do a disservice to those who have suffered from the disease. Alternatively, if you discuss cancer too heavily, then you disengage the majority of […]

Running for the first time in Oxford this year, Pink Week brought eight days of themed events aimed at raising breast cancer awareness and funds for cancer charities. Inspired by the activism of the late Guardian columnist Dina Rabinovitch, Pink Week was established by her daughter Nina Rauch at Haberdashers’ Aske’s school in 2011. Since […]

Launching at Wahoo this Friday, Pink Week is coming to Oxford. The campaign aims to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer charities. In this profile, the Pink Week team introduce Gina Sternberg, head of Pink Week at Oxford to tell us more about what the week is all about.  When was Pink Week started and […]

The beating drum of the relentless march of time is constant and relentless. So being hungover every other day doesn’t help me maximise what little time I have before my next essay deadline, before I leave Oxford, before I die. In fact in relation to the last point, the cause of a hangover will actually […]

For years, the concept of a head transplant has conjured illusions of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, rather than being a tangible reality. Now, however, brain surgeon Sergio Canavero has proposed an operation, set to take place in 2017, in which a living human head will be transplanted onto a donor body. If it were to be […]