Chemotherapy

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.

Our chief clinician offers his thoughts on new data looking at one aspect of the effects of certain cancer treatments across the NHS in England.

We explore how clinical trials are run, and hear from a patient about what it’s like taking part in a cancer clinical trial.

A clinical trial to test a drug which may stop bladder cancers becoming resistant to chemotherapy is being launched by Cancer Research UK.

Scientists in Dundee have uncovered important information about how ovarian cancer becomes resistant to certain treatments.