Cancer news

Monday morning’s papers had lots of coverage of research presented at yesterday’s conference: data on the unacceptably high death rates of patients diagnosed as an...

As challenges go, understanding how cancers spread around the body is a biggy.

We know the locations tumour cells end up in isn’t random – breast cancer cells tend...

This entry is part 25 of 25 in the series Our milestones

In this instalment of our Milestones series, we look at Cancer Research UK’s pivotal trials, proving that a...

The world’s largest ever clinical trial looking at whether taking aspirin stops some of the most common cancers coming back, launches across the UK today.

Yesterday saw some bold, but extremely misleading headlines about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) being “harmless”.

This unfortunate statement flies in the face...

In the 90s Sci-Fi dystopian blockbuster ‘The Matrix’, a computer programme shields humanity from a terrifying ‘real world’, where machines harvest energy from humans....

At the top of every scientific paper, in small, neat typography is a roll call of the researchers who helped make the study happen.

This can be just a few...

The coverage of actress Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy led to improved knowledge of breast reconstruction surgery among women.

Giving cancer patients aspirin at the same time as immunotherapy could dramatically boost the effectiveness of the treatment

UK scientists have shown how DNA released into the bloodstream by cancer cells could be used to monitor women with breast cancer.