Cancer news

A combination of chemotherapy drugs was better than a single drug at extending the lives of pancreatic cancer patients after surgery.

Pancreatic cancer patients treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy before surgery may live longer than those who have immediate surgery.

Doctors should use a specialised type of scan to help decide if patients with pancreatic cancer may benefit from surgery, according to NICE.

Two important cancer genes cooperate to make lung cancers more aggressive in mice, according to new research.

Find out the burning questions some of our researchers want to answer as they set up their own research teams for the first time.

We're backing a new project that could boost our understanding of pancreatic cancer and increase opportunities for patients to join clinical trials.

New treatments for pancreatic cancer are set to be transformed by a network of clinical trials - to find the right trial for the right patient.

New research by our scientists may have found a way to target a faulty cell suicide pathway in cancer.

Combining new ways to measure molecules could lead to the most accurate picture of tumours ever created. We explore the science behind the approach.

Cancer Research Technology and Varleigh Dx have jointly launched a new test as an aid in the diagnosis of patients with pancreatic cancer.