A brand new type of cancer drug that acts as a ‘Trojan horse’ to get inside tumour cells has shown promise in patients with six different cancer types.

Older patients with bladder cancer who are too frail for aggressive treatment could benefit from weekly image-guided radiotherapy, new research reports.

Treating bladder and head-and-neck cancers with an experimental drug called CCT244747 makes radiotherapy more successful at killing them, scientists have discovered.