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Cambridge is changing the story of cancer
15 Jul 2024
Find out about groundbreaking cancer research at Cambridge, including our planned new hospital, how we're studying the earliest stages of cancer, how AI is helping fight the disease, and the patients playing a key role in our work. Read more below:
Journeys of discovery: Steve Jackson and a life-saving cancer drug
15 Jul 2024
What excites Steve Jackson is understanding how biology works and why it sometimes goes wrong. But what galvanises him is knowing there are people alive today as a result of his discovery of how to create a cancer drug. Read more below:
Cambridge scientists benefit from Cancer Research UK funding boost
20 May 2024
Funding totalling almost £6 million has been awarded to doctors and scientists in the East of England to boost research into life-saving cancer treatments and services.
Cambridge scientists to race for life
2 May 2024
A Cambridge scientist and her colleagues are urging people to back life-saving research and sign up for Race for Life.
Study highlights increased risk of second cancers among breast cancer survivors
25 Apr 2024
Survivors of breast cancer are at significantly higher risk of developing second cancers, including endometrial and ovarian cancer for women and prostate cancer for men, according to new research studying data from almost 600,000 patients in England.
The Lancet Commission on Breast Cancer publishes recommendations for change
16 Apr 2024
Many people with breast cancer are ‘systematically left behind’ due to inaction on inequities and hidden suffering, according to the report.
The Lancet Commission on Breast Cancer Report Launch
16 Apr 2024
All welcome to join online on Tues 16 April, 14:00-17:30, to hear from authors, special guests, and Lancet editors on ways to reduce breast cancer inequities, suffering, and cases globally.
Report highlights inequalities and hidden suffering among people living with breast cancer
15 Apr 2024
Many people with breast cancer ‘systematically left behind’, say researchers in Lancet Commission led by Professor Charlotte Coles.
‘Exhausted’ immune cells in healthy women could be target for breast cancer prevention
28 Mar 2024
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have created the world’s largest catalogue of human breast cells, which has revealed early cell changes in healthy carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations.
Cambridge Precision Breast Cancer Symposium 2024
22 Mar 2024
Registration is open for our annual symposium to hear the latest on breast cancer research in Cambridge and beyond on Friday 22 March in Cambridge.
