Crowned this years winners. Now on bbc news, click. This week, we look at the latest tech being used to combat cancer. Lara hits the lab to see how ai and robotics are being harnessed to create new treatments for the condition. We uncover the new blood Monitoring System aiming to give Cancer Patients more independence. Ijust fell in love with the machine. It gave me a little bit of control back as well. We meet the robots with a sense of touch. So, how did you sleep last night . Did you sleep well . And spencer looks at how a Video Game Engine can make movies. We can move the shard. Laughter. Which does make me feel more powerful. According to britains biggest cancer charity, someone is diagnosed with cancer here in the uk every two minutes. Despite massive progress, many treatments are still incredibly harsh and not always successful. However, we now have technologies like ai and robotics which are helping us to discover more effective drugs with fewer side effects quicker. One in two
Of control back as well. We meet the robots with a sense of touch. So, how did you sleep last| night . Did you sleep well . And spencer looks at how a Video Game Engine can make movies. We can move the shard. Laughter. Which does make me feel more powerful. According to britains biggest cancer charity, someone is diagnosed with cancer here in the uk every two minutes. Despite massive progress, many treatments are still incredibly harsh and not always successful. However, we now have technologies like Aland Robotics which are helping us to discover more effective drugs with fewer side effects quicker. One in two of us will be diagnosed with cancer in our lifetime one in two for years, treatment has been centred around surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, sometimes a combination. Cancer therapy has evolved over the last two decades, and particularly moving, shifting away from chemotherapy for every patient and for every cancer to personalised treatment. In some cancers, we have really
Of the issues involved, the passionately polarised emotions it produces and the way certain terms and images tend to dominate the debate. Here are three recent examples of bbc reporters covering the subject. Net migration reached Record Levels in 2022 and 2023. Thats the difference between the number of people arriving and leaving. You might have got the impression that its small boats that have driven a record rise in Net Migration. They havent. While the issues important, in the context of overall immigration, the numbers are tiny. Rwanda is this country in east africa at least part of the solution to the huge pressures of International Migration . The government thinks so, but its been one heck of a journey to try to get Asylum Seekers sent there. No ifs, no buts, these flights are going to rwanda. Enough is enough. Shouting this was the scene last week as smugglers clashed with police on a french beach. And in the middle of the chaos, one unforgettable image of a small girl perched
Standard Cancer Therapies can be incredibly tough to go through. And one of the great new hopes for Kinder Treatment is immunothera py. Thats drugs that work alongside your own Immune System to kill cancer cells. Scientists here at labgenius in South East London are harnessing the power of robotics and ai. Theyre hoping itll help them find new Immunotherapy Treatments and make existing ones better. Theres a lot going on in here some of it by automated machines, some of it by people. Thats right. So, the different thing about what this machine is doing, and what you might envisage or see happening in a normal lab, is all of the experiments have actually been designed by an algorithm. And all of the data youre using is your own data . Thats absolutely right. And actually, that is a really, really key point. We want to build models that are predictive of certain biological features of interest, and the challenging thing for us is that data thats required to train those models, it doesnt e
The new treatments for metastatic melanoma are many things… Like incredible. Revolutionary. Even, as they say in medicine, paradigm-changing. But what does all this mean for you (or a loved one) with an advanced melanoma diagnosis? One very encouraging message: You have a much better chance of surviving this skin cancer type when it’s spread in your body than you would’ve only a decade ago. So close all the tabs in your browser with stories older than 10 years on the topic, and read up on current treatment options for metastatic melanoma here.
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Surgery remains the main treatment for early stages of melanoma, but can also be effective in some advanced cases too, says Vadim Gushchin, M.D., a surgical oncologist, and director of The Melanoma and Skin Cancer Center, at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore. That includes what’s called a