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Impact of COVID-19 on surgical neuro-oncology MDT decision making

24 Sep 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has put pressure on many parts of the healthcare system in the UK, including those involved in looking after patients with brain tumours as a recent study in the BMJ Open reveals.

Alec and family support Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

23 Sep 2020

An inspirational Suffolk boy who doctors feared would never be well enough to attend school is getting ready to meet his new classmates next week.

Cells sampled from the oesophagus - those stained brown have the biomarker TFF3 indicating Barrett's oesophagus

DNA signals identify those at greatest risk of oesophageal cancer

7 Sep 2020

New model predicts oesophageal cancer eight years early for one in two patients.

A Very 2020 Race for Life

27 Aug 2020

Addenbrooke's Hospital cancer nurses join special Race for Life weekend in September to raise funds for life-saving research.

Dr Helen Mott getting on her bike to promote Cancer Research UK’s Cycle 300 fundraising initiative.

Cambridge scientist gets cancer research back on track with Cycle 300

21 Aug 2020

A Cambridge scientist is getting on her bike for Cancer Research UK and is urging others to do the same to help get research back on track after the impact of the pandemic.

100 core quality standards to assess Cancer Centres across Europe

19 Aug 2020

A paper published in The Lancet Oncology recommends a newly-defined list of 100 core standards to measure and improve the quality of cancer care, treatment and research in Cancer Centres across Europe.

Towards a cancer mission in Horizon Europe

7 Aug 2020

European mission against cancer: researchers, policy makers, charities and patient organisations team up to draft a plan of action.

Four-stranded DNA structures found to play role in breast cancer

3 Aug 2020

New research by Profs Balasubramanian and Caldas published in Nature Genetics studies G-quadruplex DNA structures in 22 model tumours.

Cytosponge: enclosed in capsule (right), expanded sponge (left)

Game-changing sponge detects those at risk of cancer

31 Jul 2020

A ‘sponge on a string’ pill test has been hailed a ‘game-changer’ by Cambridge cancer doctors after results from a hugely successful 3 year trial were published in the medical journal The Lancet today.

Genetic tool can identify Asian women at higher risk of breast cancer

31 Jul 2020

The tool, called a Polygenic Risk Score (PRS), separates people into different risk groups based on their genetic sequence to predict their future risk of developing breast cancer.

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