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BBC Health 📅 28 Jul 2026 ⏱ 1 min read Oncology

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How understanding inflammation could transform treatments from cancer to Alzheimer’s.

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  • Inflammation emerges as a common pathological mechanism across diverse conditions including cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, offering potential for unified therapeutic approaches targeting inflammatory pathways rather than individual diseases.
  • Advances in understanding inflammatory biology at the molecular level are enabling development of more targeted anti-inflammatory treatments with improved efficacy and reduced off-target effects compared to conventional broad-spectrum approaches.
  • Clinicians should consider inflammatory status as a diagnostic and prognostic marker across multiple specialties, potentially allowing earlier intervention and personalised treatment strategies based on individual inflammatory profiles.
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How understanding inflammation could transform treatments from cancer to Alzheimer’s.

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