The Newsstand - our hand-picked highlights of the best cancer research stories Cancer-hunting “nanorobots” Who isn’t intrigued by this headline? Sounds positively science fiction, but the research the news reported on is firmly in the realms of reality. The “robots” are not what you migh...

The Newsstand - our hand-picked highlights of the best cancer research stories Are you worried about the wrong things? There are some things that we know for sure cause cancer - ageing, smoking, weight, too much sun exposure and genetics, to name a few. There are also things that we think might in...

With funding from Worldwide Cancer Research, scientists in The Netherlands have revealed how gluten plays a role in the development of a rare form of cancer, for a small group of people with coeliac disease. The scientists at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have shown that immune system c...