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Prof Riana Bornman and Prof Vanessa Hayes, a genomicist focused their research on prostate cancer in black Southern African men of Bantu and Khoisan descent, to better understand the possible links between prostate cancer and African ancestry.
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The escalating medical economic burden is in part attributable to the gap between diagnostics and therapy. Nuclear Medicine is rapidly facilitating the shift from ‘trial and error’ medicine to personalised medicine and holds great promise for improved patient outcomes. The ‘see it, treat it’ approach increases the quality of clinical care and will ultimately save costs through helping...
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A major challenge in cancer research is to find agents that target cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells alone and unharmed. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments can have many undesirable side effects because they damage healthy cells as well.
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A study by researchers into the presence of potentially dangerous chemicals in eight brands of cling wrap, which is used to package food has revealed that one brand had a high concentration, which may result in adverse health effects and cancer risks.
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Most people have, in some way or other, been affected by cancer, whether through the loss of a loved one or a personal fight against the big C, a dreaded and often incurable disease.
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We all know the importance of drinking enough water every day. Some of the many benefits of drinking water are that it improves skin complexion, flushes out toxins, maintains regularity and boosts the immune system.
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A collaborative study by researchers from the University of Pretoria (UP), the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the University of Sydney in Australia, have mapped the entire genome of a prostate cancer tumour for the first time.
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.A collaborative study by researchers from the University of Pretoria (UP), the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the University of Sydney in Australia, have mapped the entire genome of a prostate cancer tumour for the first time.
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The Faculty of Health Science’s Department of Nuclear Medicine has entered a collaboration with the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), to develop a new breakthrough treatment for cancer patients.
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