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Up and running – how can we make clinical trial set-up times faster?

The UK is ideally suited for early phase oncology trials, so is it possible to speed up set-up time? Sharan Sandhu tells us how we could... The UK is ideally suited for early phase oncology trials, so is it possible to speed up set-up time? Sharan Sandhu tells us how we could...

15 December 2025

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In the driving seat: Samra Turajlić on data ethics, cancer evolution and patient-centred research

We caught up with newly appointed Director of the CRUK Manchester Institute, Samra Turajlić to talk data ethics, cancer evolution and the future of patient care… We caught up with newly appointed Director of the CRUK Manchester Institute, Samra Turajlić to talk data ethics, cancer evolution and the future of patient care…

9 December 2025

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Spin doctors: taking on the challenge of tissue-specific cell cycle control

A false start, a Nobel Prize and renewed hope – understanding cell cycle disruption over different tissues is complex. But we are getting there…    A false start, a Nobel Prize and renewed hope – understanding cell cycle disruption over different tissues is complex. But we are getting there…   

27 November 2025

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Exploring the survival tactics of childhood cancers

Lava-dwelling lizards, cells playing dead and a century-old evolutionary theory – understanding the way childhood cancers resist treatment is proving to be quite a ride... Lava-dwelling lizards, cells playing dead and a century-old evolutionary theory – understanding the way childhood cancers resist treatment is proving to be quite a ride...

18 November 2025

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Data science - are we chatting away scientific integrity?

LLMs are impressive yet they also pose a threat to science. The first column in our new series on data science gets into the dichotomy... LLMs are impressive yet they also pose a threat to science. The first column in our new series on data science gets into the dichotomy...

11 November 2025

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Getting to grips with the metastatic niche

Understanding how cancer spreads to distant parts of the body is a formidable challenge - but understanding it could be a real clinical breakthrough... Understanding how cancer spreads to distant parts of the body is a formidable challenge - but understanding it could be a real clinical breakthrough...

4 November 2025

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Animal instincts: Exploring nature’s oncologist

Can we pick apart how evolution has suppressed cancer in some species? Alex Cagen is attempting exactly that by going beyond mouse models… way beyond. Can we pick apart how evolution has suppressed cancer in some species? Alex Cagen is attempting exactly that by going beyond mouse models… way beyond.

27 October 2025

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A model citizen for early detection

Fresh from her Impact Award, Professor Ruth Etzioni talks mathematical models, overdiagnosis and why modellers must explain their working… Fresh from her Impact Award, Professor Ruth Etzioni talks mathematical models, overdiagnosis and why modellers must explain their working…

23 October 2025

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Cancer – a disease of ageing… until it isn’t

Cancer incidence increases with ageing – except in the very old, where rates of the disease drop. Why is that? Cancer incidence increases with ageing – except in the very old, where rates of the disease drop. Why is that?

8 October 2025

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Piecing together the puzzle of cancer inequalities

The issue of cancer inequality is layered, with differences in outcome at each stage of the cancer journey. But researchers are doing the work to put together the pieces of the puzzle… The issue of cancer inequality is layered, with differences in outcome at each stage of the cancer journey. But researchers are doing the work to put together the pieces of the puzzle…

2 October 2025

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The challenges of going international for CYP

International trials are vital to children’s and young people’s cancer research but can be notoriously difficult to set up. We get into the challenges… International trials are vital to children’s and young people’s cancer research but can be notoriously difficult to set up. We get into the challenges…

24 September 2025