Treatment

These are some of the biggest questions in cancer research. Cancer Grand Challenges are looking for research teams that can help answer them.

Cancer vaccine development has had many challenges. But with recent breakthroughs and new partnerships, could we be closer than ever?

Researchers at the University of Sheffield have developed a new magnetic device we could use to make more chemotherapy drugs effective against brain tumours.

We’ve helped double brain tumour survival over the past 40 years. Now, researchers are combining some of our most successful drugs, temozolomide and PARP inhibitors, to make glioblastoma treatment more effective.

Researchers have found a way to deliver cancer-killing viruses to tumours by hiding them inside immune cells.

Giving colon cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery cuts their risk of the disease coming back, according to a trial we funded.

As our 20th anniversary year draws to a close, we’re celebrating some of the pioneering women who have contributed to impactful cancer research and paved the way for even more.

Dinny and Loren had different types of cancer, and in both cases the disease took away their voices. Until, of course, they found a way to break the silence.

Cancer Research UK, in partnership with tech company Stitch, are going live with an app for patients to use whilst participating in a clinical trial.  

The “potentially life-saving” immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab is now recommended for some people with early triple negative breast cancer in England and Wales.