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Brain tumour diagnosis cut from weeks to hours with rapid new NHS test (opens the original)
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A rapid new test for brain tumours that the NHS has started using can slash the time it takes for an accurate diagnosis from up to eight weeks to two hours. The test, which is used by doctors to diagnose which type of tumour a patient has, should mean patients can start treatment including radiotherapy and chemotherapy sooner, and are spared weeks of uncertainty. Steve Palmer, 55, from Nottingham, is among those to benefit from the new technology - and it meant surgeons were able to get his resu
Urine test can spot more than nine in 10 bladder cancers (opens the original)
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An at-home urine test that the NHS has been trialling can detect more than nine in ten cases of bladder cancer, latest findings show. The study, published in European Urology Oncology, was led by the University of Birmingham and a diagnostics company Nonacus, and involved nearly 1,000 patients at seven hospitals in England and Scotland. Researchers hope it could reduce the number of patients needing urgent, more invasive procedures, called cystoscopies, which involve inserting a small camera up
First person gets new experimental vaccine for Bundibugyo species of Ebola (opens the original)
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The first volunteer in the world - a 37-year-old UK man called Ed Hunt - has received an experimental vaccine against the Ebola virus. Hunt said he wanted to help after seeing news reports of the deadly Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo. The vaccine, designed using the same technology as one of the UK's Covid vaccines, was given in Oxford where scientists developed it in just eight weeks. Hunt is the first of 50 healthy volunteers aged 18-55 being recruited for the trial. He t
UK humanitarian worker monitored for Ebola in London hospital (opens the original)
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A humanitarian worker in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been medically evacuated to the UK after a potential healthcare‑related exposure to Ebola. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the individual, who is a UK resident and has not been named, has no symptoms, and the move is purely precautionary. The individual remains well but is being assessed and monitored at a London hospital, the statement from UKHSA said. The hospital has not been named but the Royal Free in north London has
Prostate cancer trial using focal therapy has fewer side effects (opens the original)
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A less invasive therapy for prostate cancer is just as effective as surgery or radiotherapy but with a lower risk of side effects, a major study suggests. The treatment, named focal therapy, uses high-intensity ultrasound or freezing cryotherapy to destroy cancerous tissue. A 10-year NHS study led by Imperial College London followed nearly 3,500 men who received the therapy, providing long-term data that medical regulators had previously said was missing. Researchers say the results are "excelle
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