Pancreatic cancer patients treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy before surgery may live longer than those who have immediate surgery.
A test that measures gene activity can help tailor treatment for some women with early stage breast cancer, sparing them chemotherapy.
Aggressive breast cancers carrying a faulty BRCA gene responded better to a certain type of chemotherapy than standard treatment, according to a trial.
A world-first data report could help us understand whether cancer patients are getting the most appropriate treatments for them.
A year on from a big data report and some hospitals have changed how they discuss some aspects of treatment, including palliative care.
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.
The chemotherapy drug capecitabine gives patients a better quality of life and is as effective at preventing breast cancer from returning as the alternative CMF
We’re in Liverpool for the annual National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference, sharing updates from the most exciting research on show.
For this edition of Science Snaps we peer inside some bones, investigating how leukaemia cells get around and dodge treatment.
Cancer patients are being given a new consent form to better explain the drugs they will be given before starting treatment.