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• Health & Medicine

Our Stratified Medicine Programme – what is it and how will it work?

21 November 2011

• Health & Medicine

First patients enrolled in project to improve NHS cancer gene testing

Cancer Research UK has started recruiting patients for a pioneering initiative to demonstrate how genetic tests could be used within the NHS to help match cancer patients to the most appropriate treatment, while building a database of information for research into new targeted therapies. Cancer Research UK has started recruiting patients for a pioneering initiative to demonstrate how genetic tests could be used within the NHS to help match cancer patients to the most appropriate treatment, while building a database of information for research into new targeted therapies.

21 November 2011

The Pill and prostate cancer

15 November 2011

NHS faces huge cancer challenge as cases set to jump by 45 per cent

THE NHS must start planning now to deal with a predicted leap of 45 per cent in the number of new cancer cases in the UK over the next two decades, Cancer Research UK warns today. THE NHS must start planning now to deal with a predicted leap of 45 per cent in the number of new cancer cases in the UK over the next two decades, Cancer Research UK warns today.

28 October 2011

Gene testing young prostate cancer patients could help target treatment

ROUTINELY testing for a faulty BRCA2 gene in under-65s with prostate cancer could help identify men who could benefit from new types of targeted treatment, new research published in the British Journal of Cancer* today shows. ROUTINELY testing for a faulty BRCA2 gene in under-65s with prostate cancer could help identify men who could benefit from new types of targeted treatment, new research published in the British Journal of Cancer* today shows.

12 October 2011

Where did abiraterone come from?

21 September 2011

• Health & Medicine

Annual Review 2010/11 - Clinical trials: testing treatments that save lives

In this final article selected from our Annual Review, we focus on the crucial role of clinical trials and the people who take part in them. In this final article selected from our Annual Review, we focus on the crucial role of clinical trials and the people who take part in them.

3 August 2011

• Health & Medicine

Cancer rates rise in middle-aged

Cancer rates in middle-aged men and women in Great Britain have gone up by nearly 20 per cent in a generation - an increase of 17,000 cases a year - according to new figures released today by Cancer Research UK. Cancer rates in middle-aged men and women in Great Britain have gone up by nearly 20 per cent in a generation - an increase of 17,000 cases a year - according to new figures released today by Cancer Research UK.

18 July 2011

• Health & Medicine

Podcast: Survival, surgery, spending and patient information

15 July 2011

• Science & Technology

Lawrence Dallaglio - why my Foundation is helping beat prostate cancer

14 July 2011

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• Science & Technology

Cracking the cancer code - the International Cancer Genome Consortium

14 July 2011

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• Health & Medicine

Projects launched to crack the cancer code

CANCER RESEARCH UK today launched two pioneering projects to identify the key genetic faults that are driving oesophageal and prostate cancers, which will transform our understanding of the diseases and pave the way to better and more targeted treatments. CANCER RESEARCH UK today launched two pioneering projects to identify the key genetic faults that are driving oesophageal and prostate cancers, which will transform our understanding of the diseases and pave the way to better and more targeted treatments.

13 July 2011