Delays to cancer surgery and other treatment caused by the coronavirus crisis could result in thousands of additional deaths linked to the pandemic in England, a major new study reports.

Scientists have created a dynamic database driven by artificial intelligence which is collecting together the world’s research on coronavirus in a single online space.

The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has broadly welcomed the approval of targeted hormone therapies enzalutamide and abiraterone as first-line NHS treatments for men with advanced prostate cancer.