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Fellows of the Royal Society 2024
16 May 2024
Congratulations to Centre members Prof Rebecca Fitzgerald and Prof George Malliaras on being elected as Fellows of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.
Early Cancer Institute Seminar: Professor Sarah Teichmann
14 May 2024
Please join this seminar on Tuesday 14 May, 12:30-14:00 at the Clifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre..
Funding innovative use of medical imaging for early detection or treatment of cancer
13 May 2024
Announcing the winners of pump-priming awards from our Advanced Cancer Imaging Programme in collaboration with the Early Cancer Institute and the Department of Radiology.
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.
UK's only research institute dedicated to understanding early cancer receives £11 million donation
2 Apr 2024
The University of Cambridge’s Early Cancer Institute – the UK's only research facility dedicated to understanding early cancer – has received a landmark £11 million donation to support its vital work in the fight against cancer.
NHS trial of sponge-on-a-string test replaces need for endoscopy for thousands of patients
26 Feb 2024
A new test to help diagnose a condition that can lead to oesophageal cancer – developed by Cambridge researchers and trialled by the NHS – has reduced the need for invasive endoscopy in thousands of low-risk patients.
World-renowned Cambridge scientists back call for urgent investment in research
22 Feb 2024
Professor Sir Stephen Jackson, Professor Richard Gilbertson, Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald and Professor Greg Hannon have joined forces with Cancer Research UK to call on philanthropists to help tackle the disease.
Get hands-on with cancer research in Cambridge!
12 Feb 2024
Join us on Saturday 16 March from 11am – 4pm for the Big Biomedical Campus day at the Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology.
Cancer isn’t fair – but care should be
4 Feb 2024
To mark World Cancer Day on 4 February, and its campaign to make cancer care fair and equitable, we take a look at some of the ways researchers and the planned Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital are working with communities to ‘close the cancer care gap'.
New trial brings screening for oesophageal cancer closer
9 Jan 2024
A man from Cambridge is the first to join the surveillance part of a clinical trial that could see routine screening for oesophageal cancer introduced into the NHS, potentially halving deaths from this cancer every year.
