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News – bowel cancer chaos, breast cancer stats, citizen science and more

This week’s big science story comes from our London Research Institute, where researchers have found a molecular mechanism that causes extreme chromosomal chaos in bowel cancer. The BBC had this take, while we took a look at the science behind R...

Breast cancer in the UK: can we do even better?

In the UK we’re making great progress against breast cancer – over 85 per cent of women diagnosed with the disease survive for at least five years. And around two thirds of all women diagnosed with breast cancer can expect … Continue readin...

Can the power of the public help personalise cancer treatment?

Tonight, leading technology experts, hackers and scientists will gather in London to get ready for a weekend with a difference – Cancer Research UK’s GameJam event. Over the next 48 hours, forty ‘hackers’ will be embedding raw anonymised gene...

MPs have a go at ‘citizen science’

We’ve been talking about our new ‘citizen science’ work a fair bit recently on this blog. But it’s important to make sure that MPs are up to date with our latest projects. So yesterday we went to Parliament to tell … Continue readin...

Order from chaos – making sense of bowel cancer’s scrambled DNA

Last year, researchers at our London Research Institute published what became – after the discovery of the Higgs boson – the second most-referenced science paper of 2012 Their study looked at how tumours ‘evolve’ during treatment, an...

Introducing our latest arsenal in the fight against cancer

Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we’re able to spend hundreds of millions of pounds every year on life-saving cancer research. And our highly experienced Science Committee makes sure this money goes to fund the most creative, promising a...

News digest – galaxies and tumours, childhood cancer trials, doctor delays, and more

The number one reason people say they might delay seeing their GP is difficulty making an appointment. Our press release has more info and the story was widely covered in regional media, and in The Independent. Overly complex EU clinical … Cont...

Twitter interview – skin cancer

In our first ever live Twitter interview – or Twinterview – we invited people to tweet us with questions on skin cancer – and we were kept busy with a wide range of great queries. Our health expert Yinka Ebo … Continue reading...

Stargazing to spot cancer

Today our researchers announce the results of an exciting project bringing together two unlikely scientific bedfellows – astronomy and pathology.  Back in 2010, Dr Raza Ali and his team at our Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute joined forces...

Tracing the roots of breast cancer

Our bodies are made of hundreds of different types of cells. And when processes inside them go wrong, and allow them to keep dividing uncontrollably, cancers form. But individual cells are very small – by the time tumours (which are … Con...

News digest – tackling tobacco, lung cancer survival, a dancing gorilla and more

A lot of this week’s cancer research news focused on lung cancer and tobacco. Here’s our run-down of the week’s events. World leaders must ‘take tobacco much more seriously’ in order to tackle disease like cancer, heart disease and...

The science of healthy habits

We all know the old ‘maxim prevention is better than cure’, and this is certainly true of cancer. More than 300,000 of us develop the disease in the UK each year. Each diagnosis is devastating for the person and their … Continue rea...

A small cardboard box – what’s all the fuss about?

Over the next couple of days, MPs in Westminster will be opening their mail to find a range of shiny, rectangular boxes, colourful and slickly designed to maximise the appeal of their contents. Like all packaging of branded products – … Conti...

Lung cancer in the UK – earlier diagnosis and better treatment are crucial

We’ve blogged before about the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) – a collaboration between researchers trying to understand how and why cancer survival varies between different countries. Earlier this month, they looked into d...

I want to break free – the microenvironment and metastasis

No man is an island, and the same can be said of tumour cells. Previous posts in our ‘microenvironment’ series have discussed how the cells and structures around a tumour – known collectively as its microenvironment – are crucial to … C...

News digest – World Cancer Day, DNA ‘editing’, stress and cancer, inequalities, and more

Monday was World Cancer Day, and a chance to reflect on progress and challenges in global efforts to tackle cancer. This meant an abundance of editorials in the press, and a slew of comment pieces around the web. We blogged … Continue reading &...

Should people with cancer be given lifestyle advice?

PhD student Kate Williams talks about her team’s new research paper Keep active; eat healthily; don’t smoke: general lifestyle advice isn’t hard to come by. And a range of organisations – including the UK government and charities like Can...

What about my type of cancer?

“Why don’t you spend more on my cancer type?” and “why don’t you do more to highlight awareness?” These are two questions we hear frequently, and topics that are close to many of our supporters’ hearts. Understandably, everyone who has...

Coming together in the global fight against cancer

What do an astronaut, a former First Lady and a CSI: Miami actress have in common? They were all speakers at Monday’s Global Summit on Women’s Cancers, held on the annual World Cancer Day (see our earlier blog post for … Continue reading &#...

Spreading the word about cancer worldwide

Today is World Cancer Day. In the UK barely a day goes by without a cancer story in the headlines or politicians debating a cancer-related issue. Here cancer is high on the political agenda and in the public consciousness – … Continue reading...

News digest – men’s cancer toll, UK’s stiff upper lip, teen sunbed use, and more

Men are over 35 per cent more likely to die from cancer than women in the UK, according to a new report we released this week. This may be partly down to biological differences between men and women. But lifestyle … Continue reading →

Feeling the heat – the link between inflammation and cancer

Regular readers will know that the infrastructure supporting a tumour – its ‘microenvironment’ – is a hot topic in cancer research at the moment. In our previous post in this series, we looked at how otherwise healthy cells collude to …...

2012 – A year in policy

At Cancer Research UK, we’re dedicated to finding new ways to prevent, treat and ultimately cure all cancers. Scientific research lies at the heart of everything we do. But discoveries in the laboratory need to be translated into tangible benefits...

Lower awareness isn’t behind the UK’s poorer survival

It has long been known that people in the UK have a lower chance of surviving breast, lung, bowel and ovarian cancer than people in some other developed countries, but the question still remains – why? There are quite a … Continue reading ...

NHS research: getting Parliament onside

As the NHS is going through a period of change that “can be seen from space”  Cancer Research UK and other medical research charities have been calling for research to be ‘hard-wired’ into the new NHS structures. Last year, our … Conti...