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Reported in the DT - 25 February

A new blood test for prostate cancer could be the most accurate yet, sparing tens of thousands of men from invasive procedures.

Experts said the breakthrough offered “great promise” for the detection of the disease, which is the most common cancer among men in Britain.

These tests, which work by detecting circulating tumour cells that are released by malignant growths, were able to correctly identify 91 per cent of cases of the disease, without any cases being wrongly found positive.

Researchers said the test called the Trublood Prostate developed by Datar Cancer Genetics had a high detection capability across all stages of the cancer, with the strongest capability shown in the most aggressive types of disease.

CSVP

You can’t have three chief executives!

You have one chief executive – responsible to the Board for the correct discharge of the company’s chief executive’s duties. The chief executive could also be a director of the company in which case they would be an executive director.

Likewise, you can have company employees directly exercising control over the company’s activities who are also directors of the company, and they are therefore also executive directors.

The board, if proper governance is being followed, should have directors who are not employees, and do not exercise managerial control over the company. These are non-executive directors. Their main purpose is to hold the executive directors to account in regard to managing the company in the best interests of the company owners – the shareholders.

Hope this provides some clarification. Happy to be corrected by any pedant!

Hypocrisy?

That wasn't a recommendation.

It was a simplistic explanation that even the simplest of investors could understand, that buying HUR on Monday would entitle the purchaser to any dividend. Time for you to take a holiday back in Stanley before you destroy all your credibility; we-thinks!

Dividend or investment - NO BUYBACKS!

Sell and take 40p profit per share?

Touk.

The DT reporter in question is Harry de Quetteville

He is the Telegraph's Special Correspondent, Technology

Twitter: @harrydq

From the DT

"the deployment of Enhertu, a breakthrough breast-cancer drug which has been shown to extend life expectancy in the sickest patients by binding to tumour cells and delivering precision chemotherapy."

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/01/27/meet-scientist-working-eliminate-terminal-cancer/

From the DT. - What might be the impact on TRMR?

Google is being sued by the US government, which wants to break up the company’s core advertising business.

Unveiled on Tuesday night, the US federal government lawsuit alleges Google abuses its dominance of the £488bn global online advertising industry.

“Google has used anticompetitive, exclusionary, and unlawful means to eliminate or severely diminish any threat to its dominance over digital advertising technologies," said the 149-page complaint, filed by the Department of Justice in a federal court in eastern Virginia.

Deputy US attorney general Lisa Monaco added: “In pursuit of outsized profits, Google has caused great harm to online publishers and advertisers and American consumers”.

Google has faced repeated accusations for years that its sheer size, at $1.27 trillion (£1.02 trillion), means it can exert undue influence on global digital advertising markets.

A Google spokesman responded to the lawsuit by saying the US government was “doubling down on a flawed argument that would slow innovation, raise advertising fees, and make it harder for thousands of small businesses and publishers to grow”.

Google’s online advertising business accounts for about 80pc of its total income. Those digital ads are mostly displayed on its search engine as well as its YouTube video streaming website.

The DoJ lawsuit is the first to explicitly seek a break-up of Google and will draw comparisons with the EU’s pursuit of Microsoft under the bloc’s competition laws in the 2000s.

Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority is among other global regulators with active investigations into the company’s business practices. UK regulators are investigating whether Google, together with Apple, are distorting competition in internet browsers.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/01/24/us-government-sues-google-attempt-smash-advertising-dominance/

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Labour will end North Sea investment, says Sir Keir Starmer

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/01/19/labour-will-end-north-sea-investment-says-sir-keir-starmer/

UK trial across three countries finds that giving patients chemotherapy before surgery was more effective

Giving bowel cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery cuts the risk of it coming back by 28%, according to the results of a trial experts are hailing as “fantastic”.

“A growing body of evidence is showing the value of pre-operative chemotherapy in several other cancers, and we believe that our results could transform how we approach colon cancer in the clinic,” said Dr Laura Magill, an associate professor at the Birmingham clinical trials unit.

Geoff Hoggard, from Leeds, who took part in the trial, said it came as a “huge shock” when he was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016. “I was willing to take any opportunity to get the most effective treatment,” he said.

Hoggard described having chemotherapy before and after surgery as “hard going”. Brain fog and severe tiredness took its toll on him, he added. “I kept going, thanks to the support of friends, family and my local church, who were a constant source of strength.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/19/new-treatment-strategy-cuts-risk-of-bowel-cancer-returning-by-28

Is this correcct?

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/AVCTF?tab=news

Avacta Group PLC @1529 EST

AVCTF:OTCPK $ 2.29

= 187p ?

If so, tomorrow should be interesting

"..... I expect they're comfortable with at least one of the bids that's come in."

So what information have Crystal Amber been privy to that I, and other shareholders, have not received?

Inevitably the II site will crash - bit like the NHS leaving operating instruments in a patient, it happens but it shouldn't.

Biggest problem with "modern" IT systems is that the system meets the needs of the developers and not the users. I just wonder how many of their clients were consulted about improvements? I recall Equiniti (Selftrade) introducing a new IT system that was so bad that Equiniti abandoned the business selling out to II. In many respects the Equiniti system had a better customer interface and features – they just couldn’t get the stockholding accuracy aspects right – or at least that was my experience!

Now II (nee TDW) has been taken over by Aberdeen (abrdn – what an innovation , branding a financial business as a schoolboy spelling error – but at least they didn’t choose 3+2=4) and I’m not holding my breath for any tangible improvement to the service I pay for.

We shall see!

You are of course refering to the territorial waters of the United Kingdom - defended by the armed forces of the United Kingdom.

Off to catch more fish - they are biting! Have a good day

The referendum on independence for Scotland was conducted wrongly, as it only “consulted” one party to the 1707 Acts that formed the United Kingdom – the Scots!

Perhaps a future referendum should “consult” the English as well – then you would get Scottish independence.

And the English would save the huge money subsidy, awarded under the “Barnet formula” that the Scottish cabal at Holyrood currently waste!

Surely, he meant the UK's oil and gas industry?

Perhaps the UK government should look again at devolution and rectify the unintended consequences of their previous unnecessary actions!

In any event the statement would seem to be a nod towards the NSGTA that the politics have changed since September. And that any new conversations with developers should be more pragmatic in ensuring the UK’s continuing access, and development of their controllable O&G assets.

The Russian - Ukraine war's future length of duration will directly impact oil prices and is thus directly relevant to HUR.

Therefore this may be very relevant https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-63987113

From the Grudian

The first African-produced tests to diagnose breast cancer and leukaemia will become commercially available within months, cutting costs and waiting times for patients across the continent.

Most of the diagnostic kits for cancer and other diseases in Africa are expensive imports from outside the continent, usually from Europe and the US.

“The price of the kit can be double that of what it would cost to manufacture it locally. It is also a long process. It can take weeks or months for the kits to arrive,” said Hassan Sefrioui, an executive board member of the Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research (MASciR), which developed the new tests.

Development of the cancer kits has been under way since 2010, Sefrioui said, and the leukaemia tests have already been used in Morocco on 400 people. Previously, all samples would have to be sent to France for analysis, prolonging and delaying treatment. “But with locally manufactured test kits, we can get results within hours,” he said.

Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in Morocco and a leading cause of death among women. While global survival rates for those diagnosed early is high, a large percentage of breast cancer cases in low- and middle-income countries, including Morocco, are detected at a later stage.

That was issued 1 July 2021