2 h. ago Cancer lab renamed in honour of Deborah James as government announces pioneering new blood test trial

The laboratory will house leading scientists conducting ‘cutting-edge’ research and could be used in the NHS

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4 h. ago Pioneering new cancer trial to detect early symptoms to be conducted in Deborah James’ BowelBabe Laboratory

The laboratory will house leading scientists conducting ‘cutting-edge’ research and could be used in the NHS

Science

13 h. ago Deborah James laboratory’s new blood test trial that could detect disease sooner

The laboratory will house leading scientists conducting ‘cutting-edge’ research and could be used in the NHS

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25 h. ago Dame Deborah James's lookalike daughter Eloise, 15, launches campaign in tribute to her late mother

Appearing on ITV this morning, Eloise, 15, featured in a segment filmed at her home in Surrey, to launch the No Butts campaign.

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34 h. ago Dame Deborah James's schoolgirl daughter says she is following in her campaigner mum's footsteps

Her young daughter, Eloise, will join ITV 's Lorraine Kelly today on her show for the No Butts initiative after it was launched by Dame Deborah in 2021.

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66 h. ago Sky News star Jacquie Beltrao reveals 'miracle drug' made her cancer

Presenter Jacquie Beltrao has spoken of the "pure joy and relief" after a pioneering drug reversed her stage 4 cancer

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2 w. ago Dame Deborah James's siblings open up about their grief 3 years on from their sister's death from bowel cancer

Dame James was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer at the age of 35. Three years after she died in 2022, her siblings laid bare their personal grief at losing their much-loved sister.

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4 w. ago ‘The field of human ancestry is rife with racism’: pioneering project to build cancer database in Africa

Less than 2% of human genomes analysed so far have been those of Africans. Yemaachi Biotech’s Africa Cancer Atlas aims to fill the research gapWhen Yaw Bediako lost his father to liver cancer, it set the Ghanaian immunologist on a journey to know more about the disease. He quickly realised the burden of cancer in Africa was much greater than he had thought – accounting for about 700,000 deaths every year – and that very few scientific papers about the disease on the continent were available.“I realised that cancer is this huge disease in Africa that doesn’t really get much research attention,” he says. “But it’s not just an African problem, it’s global It stands out as a problem that does not distinguish between geographies or socioeconomic class.” Continue reading...

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