3 d. ago Father stubs his toe and breaks his neck – only to find out he has cancer

Paul Angliss was diagnosed after his neck broke when he stubbed his toe

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3 d. ago Father, 62, left with a broken neck after stubbing his toe: 'Rare cancer was eating away my bones'

When Paul Angliss began to experience agonising back pain as he hiked Mount Fuji during an adventurous Japanese holiday with his family, he simply thought it was a sign of old age.

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1 week ago Teen given cancer diagnosis after lump in his neck was mistaken for tonsillitis

Tyler Hemming has been diagnosed with Stage Four Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

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1 week ago Vaccine breakthrough as major trial shows 'smart jab' can slash spread of cancer linked to oral sex

Researchers presenting the findings in Berlin said the 'smart' drug 'could represent a real shift in how we treat head and neck cancer'.

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1 week ago Smart jab can shrink head and neck cancer tumours within six weeks, trial finds

Triple-action therapy drug amivantamab could be given as an injection to help treat recurrent or metastatic cancersDoctors have hailed “incredibly encouraging” trial results that show a triple-action smart jab can shrink tumours in head and neck cancer patients within six weeks.Head and neck cancer is the world’s sixth most common form of the disease. If it spreads or comes back after standard treatment, patients may be offered immunotherapy and platinum chemotherapy. But if this fails, there is often little else doctors can do. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead

Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remainsGhali Khadr spent two days pleading with his parents to flee with him to southern Gaza, warning them that it was too dangerous to stay. His father, known for being stubborn, refused. Their argument was never finished – an Israeli airstrike hit his father’s home, burying his parents beneath the rubble.On Sunday, two days after the ceasefire was announced, Khadr returned to search through the ruins of his parents’ home. He spent the day sifting through shattered concrete and twisted metal for any sign of them. All he managed to find were some shards of their skulls and parts of their hands. Continue reading...

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