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Cancer diagnosis leads to social-networking app to boost mental health

Four years after Fabian Bolin's diagnosis, the War on Cancer app was launched providing a social networking platform for cancer
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How a daughter’s cancer treatment inspired an interactive app for sick kids

Dom Raban realised more could be done to help children feel at ease in hospital after watching his 13-year-old daughter
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Teleservices free up clinician’s time at Blackpool hospitals

Video conference initiatives are allowing clinicians to have direct contact with patients without having to travel between hospitals.
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Cancer Research UK clinical trial to test detection technology

The trial will look into whether Owlstone Medical's breath test technology can help pick up signs of cancer at an
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PwC to conduct internal review of breast cancer screening programme after IT error

A spokesperson for Public Health England said it had "commissioned help from PWC to support our work on the breast
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Almost 14,000 women contact breast cancer helpline after IT error revealed

Jeremy Hunt told the House of Commons that "no stone will be left unturned in uncovering the truth" behind the
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Baroness Tessa Jowell to hand over medical data to global database

Baroness Tessa Jowell is to be the first cancer patient to hand over her medical data to a global database which
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Double robot surgery carried out at The Royal Marsden Hospital

Surgeons Shahnawaz Rasheed and Marielle Nobbenhuis sat on opposite sides of the da Vinci Xi robotic console to perform a hysterectomy on
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Rapid cancer diagnosis centres to be introduced at 10 NHS hospitals

New rapid diagnostic and assessment centres for cancer are being set up in England as part of efforts to catch
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Research claims AI system can diagnose prostate cancer as accurately as pathologist

Scientists and clinicians in China have developed a learning artificial intelligence (AI) system which they say can identify cancerous prostate
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