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Our milestones: Europe’s search for an anti-cancer diet

This entry is part 30 of 30 in the series Our milestones

The results from the European EPIC have shaped our understanding of diet and cancer.

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Our milestones: Nudging breast cancer radiotherapy in the right direction

This entry is part 29 of 30 in the series Our milestones

The START trials provided the evidence needed to change practice for women having radiotherapy to treat breast cancer.

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Our milestones: A radical change that improved breast cancer surgery

This entry is part 28 of 30 in the series Our milestones

The results of a breast cancer trial we helped fund allowed surgeons to move away from ‘radical’ mastectomies towards kinder, less invasive surgeries.

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Our milestones: How a combination of events led to a cure for choriocarcinoma

This entry is part 27 of 30 in the series Our milestones

We go back to the 1950s to find out how one of our scientists helped transform the outlook for women with a rare cancer called choriocarcinoma.

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Our milestones: How a surprise discovery is helping improve cancer diagnosis

This entry is part 26 of 30 in the series Our milestones

Find out how an unexpected discovery by our scientists almost 2 decades ago is helping improve cancer diagnosis today.

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Our milestones: How anastrozole became a number one hit

This entry is part 25 of 30 in the series Our milestones

We look at one of Cancer Research UK’s key trials, proving the drug anastrozole should be the gold standard for treating breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

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Our milestones: the birth of abiraterone for prostate cancer

This entry is part 24 of 30 in the series Our milestones

We look back to the 1990s, and to our ‘first-in-man’ trial of prostate cancer drug abiraterone – a vital step in the drug’s development

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Our milestones: Cisplatin – the story of a platinum-selling life-saver

This entry is part 23 of 30 in the series Our milestones

In the latest in Our Milestones series, we look at how Cancer Research UK scientists helped develop one of the world’s most successful cancer drugs.

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Our milestones: the discovery of the NRAS signalling gene

This entry is part 22 of 30 in the series Our milestones

We go back to the 1980s, and the crucial discovery of a fundamental cancer gene by our researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research

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Our milestones: A recipe for success – the birth of combination chemotherapy

This entry is part 21 of 30 in the series Our milestones

In the latest Our Milestones series post, we look at the role we played in the advent of a 1970s cancer treatment revolution: combination chemotherapy.

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