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Opening of a precision medicine trial for rare cancers in adults and children

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Its unique design means that any treatment that appears to work for patients in the trial will be submitted for review to the Cancer Drug Fund (CDF)**** who will then decide whether to collect more data and assess whether the drug could be used as a routine treatment option on the NHS for patients with …

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Analyzing the genetic drivers of head and neck cancers

Analyzing the genetic drivers of head and neck cancers

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Newswise — Head and neck cancer, which kills more than 400,000 people worldwide each year, has multiple causes. Human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually transmitted infection, is one, but the most common and deadliest subtype are HPV-negative head and neck cancers, which account for 3% of all tumors cancers in the United States and 15,000 deaths …

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