Oncology News Today

22/12/2025

📰 NEWS: GigaTIME AI tool advances cancer research and could unlock access to better treatment

A new AI tool developed by Microsoft Research – and covered in a new Cell paper – allows researchers to study the “neighbourhood” around tumours at a new scale, which is key to predicting how cancers behave and which treatments work best.

Read more here: https://oncologynewstoday.co.uk/gigatime-ai-tool-advances-cancer-research-and-could-unlock-access-to-better-treatment/

19/12/2025

📰 NEWS: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is the first hospital in the UK to recruit a patient to a new international surgical trial for prostate cancer.

The trial, sponsored by US company PROCEPT BioRobotics and supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), is investigating whether Aquablation therapy, a novel therapy using robotics, AI and real-time imaging compares favourably to traditional surgery, known as a radical prostatectomy.

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The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is the first hospital in the UK to recruit a patient to a new international surgical trial for prostate cancer.

17/12/2025

📰 NEWS: Congratulations to Dr Jo Bird, nurse consultant at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Division of Clinical Medicine, The University of Sheffield, who has been elected as President-Elect of the UK Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS).

Jo takes up the post with immediate effect. She will support incoming President Dr Mary Tanay (Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust) for a period of two years before becoming President herself from December 2027.

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Dr Jo Bird, nurse consultant at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Honorary Senior Lecturer, Division of Clinical Medicine, University of Sheffield, has been elected as President-Elect of the UK Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS).

16/12/2025

📰 NEWS: Congratulations to Clinical oncologist Dr Mark Gaze who has been named as the inaugural recipient of the prestigious Dr Audrey Evans Award.

Dr Mark Gaze, Consultant Clinical Oncologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Charity and UCLH - University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has been named the first-ever recipient of the award, presented by children’s cancer charity Solving Kids' Cancer UK.

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Clinical oncologist Dr Mark Gaze has been announced as the inaugural recipient of the prestigious Dr Audrey Evans Award.

15/12/2025

📰 NEWS: Researchers at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust have developed a pioneering blood test that could change the way cancer is detected and monitored.

The study, published in Applied Spectroscopy and developed in partnership with Keele University, Loughborough University and other leading UK partners shows for the first time that a new technique called Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) microspectroscopy can find even a single cancer cell in a patient’s blood.

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Researchers at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) have developed a pioneering blood test that could change the way cancer is detected and monitored.

11/12/2025

📰 NEWS: Two ground-breaking studies have demonstrated that combining artificial intelligence with state-of-the-art MRI imaging could revolutionise how clinicians detect, monitor and treat advanced prostate cancer

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Five smart technologies that act as a "second pair of eyes" during bowel examinations have been conditionally recommended by NICE for NHS use, potentially helping doctors spot harmful growths that could turn into cancer.

09/12/2025

📰 NEWS: A new study funded by Breast Cancer Now will explore how people with incurable secondary breast cancer experience treatment side effects, and whether personalised drug doses could help improve their quality of life

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A new study funded by Breast Cancer Now will explore how people with incurable secondary (or metastatic) breast cancer experience treatment side effects, and whether personalised drug doses could help improve their quality of life

08/12/2025

📰 NEWS: New prehabilitation guidelines will help improve outcomes for people with cancer and shorten hospital stays

Research suggests that prehabilitation can provide a number of benefits, such as reducing some of the complications caused by cancer treatment and speeding up people’s recovery as well as enhancing their quality of life. This can all lead to shorter hospital stays and cost savings for the healthcare system.

Read more: https://oncologynewstoday.co.uk/new-prehabilitation-guidelines-will-help-improve-outcomes-for-people-with-cancer-and-shorten-hospital-stays/

Pictured: June Davis, Lead Nursing and Allied Health Professional Advisor at Macmillan Cancer Support and co-chair of the guidelines

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A new set of guidelines has been launched to help ensure better prehabilitation services for people living with cancer.

05/12/2025

📰 NEWS: Home prostate cancer screening trial means faster results

Testing for prostate cancer with a few drops of blood and a mobile phone could mean faster diagnosis thanks to a new ground-breaking trial.

Quicker screening for prostate cancer, which is diagnosed in 50,000 men every year, may soon become a reality.

The innovative approach, thought to be the first of its kind in the world for prostate cancer screening, allows patients to test themselves from the comfort of their home. After receiving a lateral flow test through the post, they take a simple finger-prick blood sample to screen for prostate cancer.

🔗 Read more here: https://oncologynewstoday.co.uk/home-prostate-cancer-screening-trial-means-faster-results/

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04/12/2025

📰 Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has launched a new thoracoscopy service to help diagnose lung cancer quicker.

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Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has launched a new thoracoscopy service to help diagnose lung cancer quicker.

03/12/2025

📰A new national research study, led by researchers at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, has opened to investigate whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) screening should become standard practice for detecting breast cancer that has spread to the brain.

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A new national research study, led by researchers at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool and University Hospitals Birmingham, has opened to investigate whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) screening should become standard practice for detecting breast cancer that ha...

02/12/2025

📰Academics from the University of Leicester have found that the risk of developing cancer following a prediabetes diagnosis is greater in those aged between 55 and 75 years than any other age group.

Previous research has indicated that elevated blood glucose levels are associated with an increased risk of developing cancer.

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Academics from the University of Leicester have found that the risk of developing cancer following a prediabetes diagnosis is greater in those aged between 55 and 75 years than any other age group.