Cancer spread (metastasis)

Cancer cells use electricity to help them spread. A new study shows it might be key to controlling their other behaviours, too.

Research from our Cambridge Institute has shown us that metastasis isn’t a process unique to cancer, revolutionising the way we think about cell dissemination. 

NICE does not recommend olaparib (Lynparza) for people with a type of advanced prostate cancer, as the treatment is not deemed cost-effective

Professor Jody Rosenblatt tells us why dysregulated cell death could have an impact not only on metastasis, but also therapy resistance.

Our scientists at the Beatson Institute are using powerful microscopes to zoom in on how cancer cells move.

Scientists are intercepting conversations between supporting cells and blood vessels that could help cancer spread.

There are many unanswered questions about how and why cancer spreads around the body. But one thing we do know is that only some cancers metastasise.

New lung cancer research shows that detecting potential tumour cells leaving the vein in the lung at surgery may predict the diseases return.

Scientists have developed an entirely new way to look at tumours. And it’s helped them solve the mystery of how some pancreatic tumours develop.

Anh Hoang Le, a PhD student at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute in Glasgow, studies two proteins that we know curiously little about: CYRI-A and CYRI-B.