• Health & Medicine

Let’s talk about HPV: 7 common questions answered

We want to have a conversation about human papillomavirus (HPV), starting with 7 questions about HPV people frequently ask our Cancer Research UK nurses. We want to have a conversation about human papillomavirus (HPV), starting with 7 questions about HPV people frequently ask our Cancer Research UK nurses.

27 August 2026

• Health & Medicine

What does HPV self-testing mean for cervical screening in England?

NHS England will offer HPV self-testing as an option for some 30 to 65-year-olds who are overdue for cervical screening. Read our FAQs for more. NHS England will offer HPV self-testing as an option for some 30 to 65-year-olds who are overdue for cervical screening. Read our FAQs for more.

25 August 2026

• Health & Medicine

UK NSC recommends targeted prostate cancer screening

The UK NSC has recommended targeted prostate cancer screening for men with a BRCA2 gene change and a family history of linked cancers. It's an important step towards more personalised, risk‑based screening, and could help detect prostate cancer earlier in the people with the highest risk. The UK NSC has recommended targeted prostate cancer screening for men with a BRCA2 gene change and a family history of linked cancers. It's an important step towards more personalised, risk‑based screening, and could help detect prostate cancer earlier in the people with the highest risk.

28 May 2026

• Personal Stories

International Women’s Day 2026: Championing women in cancer research

For International Women's Day, we're celebrating three of our amazing scientists and their work in cancer research. For International Women's Day, we're celebrating three of our amazing scientists and their work in cancer research.

8 March 2026

• Science & Technology

Good vibrations: how sound waves could help detect prostate cancer

Our researchers are using sound waves to help doctors detect prostate cancer using blood tests and urine tests. Our researchers are using sound waves to help doctors detect prostate cancer using blood tests and urine tests.

26 February 2026

• Health & Medicine

Could studying shopping habits help us spot cancer sooner?

With our funding, researchers at Imperial College London are investigating whether we can look for patterns in the medicines people buy to identify very early-stage cancers. With our funding, researchers at Imperial College London are investigating whether we can look for patterns in the medicines people buy to identify very early-stage cancers.

2 February 2026

• Health & Medicine

NHS increasing bowel cancer screening sensitivity in England

NHS England has announced it will up the sensitivity of bowel cancer screening tests, a change that should help save more lives from the country's second leading cause of cancer death. NHS England has announced it will up the sensitivity of bowel cancer screening tests, a change that should help save more lives from the country's second leading cause of cancer death.

26 January 2026

• Health & Medicine
• Policy & Insight

First steps towards a targeted prostate cancer screening programme

The UK NSC's proposed programme would invite 45 to 61-year-old men with BRCA mutations for prostate cancer screening every two years. Here's what it means and what will happen next. The UK NSC's proposed programme would invite 45 to 61-year-old men with BRCA mutations for prostate cancer screening every two years. Here's what it means and what will happen next.

28 November 2025

• Health & Medicine
• Policy & Insight

How are cancer screening programmes decided in the UK?

The UK has national screening programmes for cervical, bowel and breast cancer, with targeted lung screening being implemented in some regions. But how are they all decided? The UK has national screening programmes for cervical, bowel and breast cancer, with targeted lung screening being implemented in some regions. But how are they all decided?

21 November 2025

• Health & Medicine

Overdiagnosis: when finding cancer can do more harm than good

With new cancer detection technology on the horizon, understanding overdiagnosis is a huge challenge. With new cancer detection technology on the horizon, understanding overdiagnosis is a huge challenge.

18 November 2025