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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.
Early Cancer Institute Seminar
21 Nov 2023
Etiologic studies of gastrointestinal cancers: opportunities & implications by Gwen Murphy, Imperial College London on Tuesday 21 November, 12:30-14:00 at the Early Cancer Institute.
Early Cancer Institute Annual Symposium 2023
14 Sep 2023
Taking place on Thursday 14 September, 14:00–17:30 at the CRUK Cambridge Institute lecture theatre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
International collaboration identifies new breast cancer susceptibility genes
17 Aug 2023
The study, published today in Nature Genetics, was led by teams at the University of Cambridge and Université Laval, Quebec.