Surgery

A new and less invasive treatment developed by Cancer Research UK researchers is safer than standard major surgery for early-stage rectal cancer.

Our researchers are working on a new way to improve chemotherapy treatment for aggressive brain tumours, using the precious metal palladium.

New research has shown that an intelligent knife can distinguish between ovarian cancer and normal tissue. Could it help make ovarian cancer surgery smarter?

Brain tumour research is one of our top priorities. Here, Sue shares her experience of living with an incurable brain tumour.

Pancreatic cancer patients treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy before surgery may live longer than those who have immediate surgery.

The targeted drug sunitinib is as effective alone as when it’s combined with surgery for some people with advanced kidney cancer.

A world-first data report could help us understand whether cancer patients are getting the most appropriate treatments for them.

Prostate cancer patients may base choice of hospital for surgery on availability of new technology, rather than hospital quality information, according to study

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

Survival in women who have less invasive surgery for early-stage womb cancer is just as good as traditional surgery.