Cancer type

This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we caught up with families who have been affected by children’s and young people’s cancers to find out how COVID-19 has impacted them and their loved ones.

Pembrolizumab will be made available for some adults in Scotland with bowel cancer that’s spread to other parts of the body.  

Adults in England with advanced hormone-sensitive prostate cancer that’s spread to other parts of the body will now have a new treatment option.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has approved the first-of-its-kind drug sotorasib for some people with non small cell lung cancer.

How our partnership with Children with Cancer UK is helping to transform our understanding of children’s and young people’s cancers.

Find out how the OPTIMAM project’s mammogram collection is heralding a new dawn of machine learning based cancer detection

Dr Sally George tells us about her work on neuroblastoma and why childhood cancers really do need specific research to develop the most effective treatments.

Find out how the chemistry inside plants can lead to life-changing drugs and how a cannabis-derived drug is part of a new trial to help people with a type of aggressive brain cancer.

Meet two of the latest Primer Awardees and find out why forensic science and nanomaterials are, in fact, ideal backgrounds for cancer research

People with a certain type of advanced breast cancer will now have routine access to a new treatment option in England.