There's a fascinating paper been published in Nature Communications suggesting that a game theoretical approach to treating prostate cancer by aiming to keep it at bay rather than eradicating it can lead to significantly enhanced survival times. The key is to keep medication doses below the threshold where the cancer is likely to become stronger and more resistant. Although the paper doesn't mention it, I wonder if there's mileage in combining this approach with multi-drug testing of cloned cancer cells - a kind of personalised therapy.
By-the-by there's also news in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that Australia is well on the way to the near eradication of cervical cancer through its programme of school-based vaccination against the human papillomavirus. Exciting stuff!
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