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AI versus cancer - the Cambridge researchers using machine intelligence to beat disease
15 Jul 2024
‘Game changing’ technology which can predict how patients will respond to cancer treatment is part of a wave of Cambridge research harnessing AI to fight the disease. 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:
Learning from experience: Patients are vital to advances in tackling cancer
15 Jul 2024
Researchers and clinicians are now welcoming new perspectives: those of people with experience of cancer. Read more below:
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.
New international guidance to improve care for rare ovarian cancer patients
8 Feb 2024
Paediatric Cancer Programme member leads guidance on providing the best care possible for patients with a rare type of tumour affecting their ovaries, which will now be freely available to doctors all over the world.
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'.
Accessible information encourages ovarian cancer patients to have genetic testing
6 Nov 2023
Ovarian cancer experts and patients from Cambridge and Birmingham have developed clear, accessible information in multiple languages about the benefits of genetic testing for ovarian cancer patients.
Golfers support ovarian cancer research
9 Oct 2023
We are immensely grateful to Ely City Golf Club Ladies’ teams for raising £8,500 to support our research in ovarian cancer at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre.
Reflections on ovarian cancer research in Cambridge
28 Sep 2023
In recognition of Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month, Prof James Brenton looks at the reasons for optimism around the disease and Barbara and Lorraine share special moments they have been able to enjoy thanks to research.