DOCTOR’S NOTES
New cancer technology can kill advanced ovarian, pictured, and colorectal tumours in as little as six days, according to a clinical trial on mice.
The technology involves inserting tiny drug “factories” the size of a pinhead into the tumour.
The factories keep making and releasing immune-boosting proteins until the body destroys the tumour altogether.
The treatment killed ovarian tumours in all of the animals, and it also removed tumours in seven out of eight mice with colorectal cancer.
Vegetarians have a 14% lower chance of developing cancer than meat-eaters, according to researchers from Oxford University who analysed data from more than 470,000 Brits. Male vegetarians have a 31% lower risk of prostate cancer, while the risk is 20% lower for male pescatarians (fish-eaters).