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UCLH has recruited the first participant to an international trial in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), one of the most common causes of early-onset dementia.

Subtle changes in the brain, detectable through advanced imaging, blood and spinal fluid analysis, happen around twenty years before a clinical motor diagnosis in people with Huntington’s disease, a new study at UCLH and UCL has found.

A new study at UCLH and UCL aims to extend survival for some patients with cancer in the biliary tract by treating them with therapies specifically tailored to the genetic profile of their tumour.

Members of the public can now join a registry of healthy volunteers willing to be contacted about taking part in health research.

Researchers at UCLH, the Francis Crick Institute, and the UCL Cancer Institute have shown that a test called ORACLE can predict lung cancer survival at the point of diagnosis better than currently used clinical risk factors.