• Health & Medicine

Concern over tobacco packaging as kids say packs have more influence than celebrities

New Cancer Research UK figures show packaging influences kids more than celebs, boosting the argument for standardised tobacco packs. New Cancer Research UK figures show packaging influences kids more than celebs, boosting the argument for standardised tobacco packs.

18 March 2014

New imaging approach fast tracks drug testing for incurable prostate cancer

Scientists have developed a new way to test the effectiveness of a drug for prostate cancer that has spread to the bone, which is currently incurable Scientists have developed a new way to test the effectiveness of a drug for prostate cancer that has spread to the bone, which is currently incurable

14 March 2014

• Science & Technology

Smartphone gamers decode half a year of Cancer Research UK’s genetic data in one month

In one month ‘citizen scientists’ have analysed DNA data that would have taken a scientist six months to analyse by eye. In one month ‘citizen scientists’ have analysed DNA data that would have taken a scientist six months to analyse by eye.

14 March 2014

• Health & Medicine

Experimental breast cancer drug to be trialled in lung cancer patients

A clinical trial using an experimental drug originally designed to treat breast cancer launches for patients with advanced lung cancer  A clinical trial using an experimental drug originally designed to treat breast cancer launches for patients with advanced lung cancer 

11 March 2014

Simple blood test could improve treatment for deadly childhood cancer

A simple blood test could pinpoint which children are unlikely to respond to treatment for a particularly aggressive form of neuroblastoma A simple blood test could pinpoint which children are unlikely to respond to treatment for a particularly aggressive form of neuroblastoma

3 March 2014

New kind of scan finds cancer's sleeper cells

Researchers have developed a new imaging technique that lights up cancer’s sleeper cells, warning patients and doctors of a potential relapse Researchers have developed a new imaging technique that lights up cancer’s sleeper cells, warning patients and doctors of a potential relapse

3 March 2014

• Science & Technology
• Policy & Insight

Expert opinion: Professor Charlie Swanton – plotting a route through cancer evolution

Professor Charlie Swanton wants to know how tumours evolve. Read about his latest research and the next steps in targeting tumour diversity. Professor Charlie Swanton wants to know how tumours evolve. Read about his latest research and the next steps in targeting tumour diversity.

28 February 2014

• Health & Medicine

Kidney cancer rates up by 30 per cent in last decade

Kidney cancer rates have soared by 30 per cent since the early 2000s according to the latest figures published* by Cancer Research UK.  "Nothing could quite prepare me for the moment the doctor told me I had kidney cancer." - Nicholas Owen, BBC journalist and television presenter Over the last decade, the rates of people diagnosed have risen from 9 in every 100,000 to 12 people in every 100,000 now. Kidney cancer rates have soared by 30 per cent since the early 2000s according to the latest figures published* by Cancer Research UK.  "Nothing could quite prepare me for the moment the doctor told me I had kidney cancer." - Nicholas Owen, BBC journalist and television presenter Over the last decade, the rates of people diagnosed have risen from 9 in every 100,000 to 12 people in every 100,000 now.

27 February 2014

• Health & Medicine

Tumour protein predicts response to chemo in oesophageal cancer patients

Patients with the most common type of oesophageal cancer are less likely to respond to chemotherapy when their tumours are high in leptin Patients with the most common type of oesophageal cancer are less likely to respond to chemotherapy when their tumours are high in leptin

26 February 2014