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Experience, education and data garnered by the pioneering Prehab4Cancer (P4C) programme in Greater Manchester has helped to shape national guidelines...

A major change to the bowel cancer screening test is helping to prevent bowel cancer cases in the Black Country with early results showing an increase in people taking up the checks.

Colorectal

Change to screening test helps prevent thousands more bowel cancers

by Catherine Bontoft

2 February 2026

A major change to the bowel cancer screening test is helping to prevent bowel cancer cases in the Black Country with...

Thousands of cases of bowel cancer will be diagnosed earlier or even prevented in England, as part of major NHS plans to increase the sensitivity of bowel cancer screening to save more lives.

Colorectal

NHS to detect and prevent thousands more bowel cancers with more sensitive screening

by Catherine Bontoft

27 January 2026

Thousands of cases of bowel cancer will be diagnosed earlier or even prevented in England, as part of major NHS...

Colorectal

Dual immunotherapy for the first line treatment of adult patients with mismatch repair deficient or microsatellite instability-high unresectable or metastatic colorectal cancer now available in Scotland

Opdivo® (nivolumab) in combination with Yervoy® (ipilimumab) has been made available within NHS Scotland for the first line treatment of...

by Catherine Bontoft

21 January 2026

Oxford Drug Design, the Oxford-based AI drug discovery company, has announced an important milestone in the development of a potential first-in-class cancer therapy.

Colorectal

Oxford Drug Design announces further in vivo validation of novel oncology therapeutic mechanism

by Catherine Bontoft

12 January 2026

Oxford Drug Design, the Oxford-based AI drug discovery company, has announced an important milestone in the development of a potential first-in-class cancer therapy. Using...

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UK scientists create most detailed map yet of mutations that drive cancer

National recognition for Prehab4Cancer as it launches education initiative for leisure centre staff

Change to screening test helps prevent thousands more bowel cancers

NHS to detect and prevent thousands more bowel cancers with more sensitive screening

Colorectal

UK scientists create most detailed map yet of mutations that drive cancer

National recognition for Prehab4Cancer as it launches education initiative for leisure centre staff

Change to screening test helps prevent thousands more bowel cancers

NHS to detect and prevent thousands more bowel cancers with more sensitive screening

Dual immunotherapy for the first line treatment of adult patients with mismatch repair deficient or microsatellite instability-high unresectable or metastatic colorectal cancer now available in Scotland

Oxford Drug Design announces further in vivo validation of novel oncology therapeutic mechanism

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