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20th anniversary 21
Cancer Grand Challenges 38
Cancer in the news 855
- Cancer controversies 67
Cancer Research UK service 81
- Fundraising 65
Cancer Research UK-funded research 786
Cancer type (2,670)
- All cancer types 253
- Anal cancer 4
- Biliary tree cancers 5
  - Bile duct cancer 3
- Bladder cancer 47
- Bowel (colorectal) cancer 330
- Brain (and spinal cord) tumours 154
- Breast cancer 601
- Cervical cancer 103
- Children and young people's cancers 181
- Eye cancer 1
- Gastro oesophageal cancer 2
- Head and neck cancers 62
  - Laryngeal cancer 2
  - Mouth cancer 35
    - Oral cavity cancer 1
    - Oropharyngeal cancer 4
  - Nasal and paranasal sinus cancer 1
  - Pharyngeal cancer 2
- Heart cancer 1
- Kidney cancer 59
  - Renal cell cancer 5
  - Wilms tumour 5
- Leukaemia 121
  - Acute leukaemia 41
    - Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) 16
    - Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) 11
  - Chronic leukaemia 8
    - Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) 4
    - Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) 3
- Liver cancer 26
- Lung cancer 317
  - Non small cell lung cancer 47
  - Small cell lung cancer 7
  - TRACERx 14
- Lymphoma 83
  - Hodgkin lymphoma 9
  - Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 25
- Mesothelioma 11
- Myeloma 20
  - Multiple myeloma 5
- Neuroblastoma 21
- Neuroendocrine tumour (NET) 1
- Oesophageal cancer 105
- Ovarian cancer 151
- Pancreatic cancer 108
- Penile cancer 1
- Precancerous conditions 6
  - Barrett's oesophagus 2
  - Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colon Cancer (HNPCC) 3
- Prostate cancer 225
- Rare cancer 4
- Sarcoma 19
  - Bone cancer 3
  - Ewing sarcoma 1
  - Soft tissue sarcoma 9
    - Rhabdomyosarcoma 6
- Secondary cancers 5
- Skin cancer 244
  - Melanoma 120
  - Non melanoma skin cancer 5
    - Basal cell skin cancer 2
    - Squamous cell skin cancer 1
- Stomach cancer 27
- Testicular cancer 16
- Thyroid cancer 7
- Vaginal cancer 2
- Vulval cancer 2
- Womb (uterine or endometrial) cancer 32
Causes of cancer (1,031)
- Ageing 31
- BRCA gene mutations 9
- Chemicals 41
  - Asbestos 8
  - Environment and pollution 20
- Electromagnetic (non-ionising) radiation 11
- Family history 37
- Hormones 38
  - Hormone Replacement Therapy 5
  - Oral contraceptives 11
- Infections 83
  - Helicobacter pylori 1
  - Viruses 64
- Lifestyle 727
  - Alcohol 94
  - Body weight and obesity 132
  - Diet 146
    - Fat 1
    - Fish 3
    - Fruit and vegetables 7
    - Red and processed meat 29
    - Vitamin D 5
  - Sun & UV 91
    - Sunbeds 15
  - Tobacco 377
    - Secondhand smoke 3
    - Smokeless tobacco 3
    - Smoking 116
- Medical conditions 2
  - Gonorrhoea 1
- Occupation 2
- Radioactivity 13
Conferences 117
- AACR conference 6
- ASCO conference 28
- NAEDI conference 4
- NCRI conference 68
Coronavirus (COVID-19) 81
Diagnosing cancer 690
- Early detection 234
- Screening 276
  - Bowel screening 31
    - Flexible sigmoidoscopy 6
    - FOBT (Faecal Occult Blood Test) 7
  - Breast screening 19
    - Mammogram 1
  - Cervical screening 24
- Signs and symptoms 78
- Tests 193
  - Biopsies 8
  - Blood test 24
    - PSA test 7
  - Colonoscopy 2
  - Cytosponge 2
  - DNA test 4
  - Endoscopy 2
  - HPV test 6
  - Scans (imaging) 79
    - CT scan 3
    - Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) 10
    - Mammogram 5
    - PET scan 1
    - Ultrasound 1
    - X-ray 3
  - Urine test 5
Drug decision 10
Expert Opinion 79
In memory 11
Institute 35
- CRUK Beatson Institute Glasgow 7
- CRUK Birmingham Centre 1
- CRUK Cambridge Institute 9
- CRUK City of London Centre 2
- CRUK Edinburgh Centre 1
- CRUK Manchester Centre 1
- CRUK Manchester Institute 3
- CRUK Southampton Centre 2
- Francis Crick Institute 11
- The Institute of Cancer Research 4
Lung Cancer Impact 6
News digest 404
NHS 15
Partnerships 15
People 458
- Age 73
  - Children 52
  - Teenagers and young adults 21
- Ethnicity 20
- Human role 211
  - Health professional 21
    - Nurse 2
  - Patient 99
  - Politician 7
  - Researcher 70
  - Supporter 25
- LGBTQ+ community 4
- Real stories 12
- Sex 122
  - Men 31
  - Women 94
- Socio-economic variation 9
  - Deprivation 6
- Volunteering 3
Philanthropy 11
- Gifts in Wills 1
Policy 734
- Campaigning 97
- Cancer prevention policy 211
  - Tobacco control 148
- Charity policy 9
- Early detection policy 54
- Health service policy 270
- Inequality 52
- Manifesto for Cancer Research and Care 2
- Research policy 88
- Treatments policy 6
Preventing cancer 627
- Breastfeeding 4
- Physical activity 54
- Quitting smoking 96
- Vaccination 41
  - HPV vaccine 18
Research and trials (1,584)
- Animal research 18
- Biomarker research 92
- Cancer biology 373
  - Cancer spread (metastasis) 103
  - Epigenetics 10
  - Inflammation 30
  - Microenvironment 53
  - Stem cells 40
  - Tumour metabolism 14
- Cancer genes 300
- Clinical trials 294
- Drug discovery and development 67
- Drug resistance 26
- Immune system 108
- Population studies (epidemiology) 26
- Screening and early diagnosis 15
- Translational research 73
Statistics 226
- Incidence 9
- Mortality 7
- Survival 9
Treatment (1,146)
- Alternative therapies 22
- Chemotherapy 171
- Combination therapy 20
- Complementary therapies 2
- Gene therapy 7
- Hormone therapy 35
- Immunotherapy 200
- Improving treatments 19
- NHS treatment decision 22
- Pain control 2
- Palliative care 4
- Patient care 36
- Personalised medicine 87
- Quality of life 39
- Radiotherapy 167
  - External radiotherapy 5
  - Internal radiotherapy (brachytherapy) 2
- Side effects 23
- Surgery 83
- Targeted therapies 67
- Transplant 2
  - Bone marrow transplant 1
Tumour microenvironment 3
Women in science 5

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