Our research by cancer type

Over a century of life-saving research

Cancer Research UK was formed 20 years ago, in 2002. However, our history goes back much further, to 1902, with the founding of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. We're the only charity to fund research into all 200 types of cancer.

Cancer types

Find out more about the research we're doing now, and how our research has saved or improved the lives of cancer patients.

Our strategy to beat cancer sooner

Over the last 40 years, cancer survival rates in the UK have doubled. In the 1970s just 1 in 4 people survived their disease for 10 years or more. Today 2 in 4 survive.

We want to accelerate progress and see 3 in 4 patients surviving the disease by 2034.

Read more about our strategy

Clinical trials

Further information

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