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The Lancet announces Breast Cancer Commission
19 Feb 2022
Professor Charlotte Coles is to lead an international multidisciplinary team aiming to influence global policy and improve the lives of people at risk of, and living with, breast cancer.
Live cells discovered in human breast milk could aid breast cancer research
28 Jan 2022
Researchers have explored the cellular changes that occur in human mammary tissue in lactating and non-lactating women, offering insight into the relationship between pregnancy, lactation and breast cancer.
European Consensus on breast cancer radiotherapy published
6 Jan 2022
A new Consensus statement opens the door to worldwide improvements in breast cancer radiotherapy treatment.
Personalised Breast Cancer Programme rolled out nationwide
22 Oct 2021
A ground-breaking breast cancer treatment programme in Cambridge that could potentially save thousands of women’s lives has been given the green light to be rolled out across the country.
Early research findings could help screen women with BRCA mutations
9 Mar 2021
New research in the lab identifies changes that can be detected in BRCA1 breast cells before they turn cancerous.
Norfolk friends share their stories for World Cancer Day
3 Feb 2021
Three friends who had breast surgery model lingerie to help women regain confidence and support Cancer Research UK's World Cancer Day campaign.
Most important breast cancer risk genes identified
20 Jan 2021
The most ambitious international research ever conducted on the inheritance of breast cancer is published today (20 January) in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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.