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News digest – melanoma in men, local stats, quitting sucesses and more 23 Aug 2013 | 07:46 pm
Here’s our round-up of the week’s developments in cancer research. We published new statistics showing the difference in death rates from melanoma between men and women (here’s the press release). Th...
Will the NHS reforms give us a world-class radiotherapy service? 22 Aug 2013 | 02:26 pm
Radiotherapy cures more patients than cancer drugs Radiotherapy can cure cancer, and we want patients in the UK to have a world-class radiotherapy service which saves more lives. We have long been c...
News digest – genetic breakthrough, new skin cancer drug, neuroblastoma trial, and more 16 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Our picks of the week’s headlines The big science story this week came from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, where researchers uncovered 21 major patterns of genetic damage behind ca...
Putting lung cancer under the magnifying glass 15 Aug 2013 | 07:42 pm
Lung cancer cells (Image from the Cancer Research UK LRI EM Unit) Lung cancer isn’t one of our most impressive success stories. While we have much to celebrate for many other cancers – like testicul...
Huge genetic analysis points to cancer-causing culprits 14 Aug 2013 | 10:54 pm
Researchers have found fingerprints of the processes that cause cancer We know a great deal about the environmental and lifestyle factors that cause cancer on a population level. But being able to sa...
‘Mitotic spindles’ could help develop better chemo drugs 14 Aug 2013 | 01:53 pm
Dr Steve Royle Yesterday, we published a story on our newsfeed about research on how cells divide. In an article for The Conversation, republished below, CRUK researcher Dr Steve Royle, explains the...
A groundbreaking clinical trial for children with aggressive neuroblastoma 13 Aug 2013 | 01:30 pm
Professor Andrew Pearson Neuroblastoma is a form of cancer that affects around 100 children every year in the UK –mostly those under the age of five – and grows from nerve cells left over from develo...
News digest – immortal cells, data privacy, Chinese medicines and more 9 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
The latest cancer news More than 60 years ago, a young American woman called Henrietta died of cervical cancer. Her cells – taken without her consent – went on to become a valuable resource for resea...
Tackling rare cancers must be an international effort 8 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
Finding the best ways to treat rare cancers needs global collaboration Here’s another of our pieces for Al Jazeera Online, looking at how to tackle rare cancers through international collaborative cl...
The fearsome complexity of classifying brain tumours 6 Aug 2013 | 06:33 pm
The brain is incredibly complex The human brain, and the rest of our central nervous system (CNS), is arguably the most complex and awe-inspiring biological entity that evolution has ever produced. I...
