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Previous research has raised hopes that aspirin might reduce the risk of colorectal cancer returning after treatment. However, a large Scandinavian clinical trial has found no such benefit for patients who had surgery for colorectal cancer that had spread to the liver

Cancer deaths among young adults in Norway have fallen sharply over the past 30 years. However, one type of cancer stands apart from this otherwise encouraging trend: Colorectal cancer.

After a terrorist attack, warning signs often seem obvious. But hindsight can be misleading, warns criminologist Heidi Mork Lomell.

Professor Anne Simonsen’s work on cellular recycling shows why the most important discoveries in cancer research can begin with seemingly basic questions about how our bodies work.

In just a few years, China has gone from producing cheap plastic toys to developing advanced electric vehicles. Its market economy is governed by a communist one-party state, and that is just one of many Chinese paradoxes.

It is also cheaper to run, criminologist says.

The blood tests currently used do not provide a complete picture of gut health in people with coeliac disease. Researchers have identified proteins in the blood that may offer more accurate information for monitoring patients.

In the world’s most authoritarian region, football terraces have become an important arena for criticism of those in power, and for the struggle for freedom.

American English has become the norm. – This affects how young people speak English and what they think about the English language, says researcher Ulrikke Rindal.

A large number of hard-working new agents are entering working life and society in the coming years. They are happy to help us map the incidence of diseases, but they might also decide to hire a hitman.

When we ask who reads, we should not only ask who reads novels. If we broaden our definition of literature, we are talking about a rather large audience, says a literary scholar.

But when the music professor moved to Norway, he could no longer rely on his sense of pitch. The explanation may lie in sounds that most of us barely notice.

More and more people share traumas, fantasies, and everyday moments with social AI models – and experience the relationship as real.

For cancer patients undergoing head and neck radiation therapy, people living with Sjögren’s syndrome, diabetic individuals, or elderly people, a reduced amount of saliva and the consequent dry mouth are far more than uncomfortable. It can have major consequences for quality of life, making it difficult to eat, speak, and swallow, altering taste perception, and increasing the risk of dental cavities and oral infections.