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As well as conventional medical treatments for cancer – radiotherapy, surgery and chemotherapy – there’s also a growing branch of biological therapy, known as ‘biotherapeutics’. These are treatments based on biological molecules such as proteins, DNA or vaccines, which target cancer cells more effectively than many conventional drugs. This week, we announced the opening of [...]
Our award-winning patient information website, CancerHelp UK, has just produced a series of fascinating 360° photo ‘tours’ of various hospital treatment and scanning rooms. These help to give patients and their friends and family an idea of what to expect when they go into hospital for tests or treatment for cancer. Have a look around: [...]
The cells in our bodies are highly organised – from our lungs to our liver, every cell knows its place and its job, helping to keep us healthy. But cancer cells don’t obey the rules – they ignore the body’s regulations and grow out of control. Now research from Dr Inke Nathke and her team [...]
Cancer cells aren’t like healthy cells. They grow and multiply out of control and, in doing so, use up large amounts of energy. To meet this energy demand, cancer cells dramatically alter their internal metabolism – the biological processes that control the production of energy within cells. Because of this, many researchers around the world [...]
Looking at the newspapers this morning, you might end up wanting to rush home and clear out all your cupboards of the products you use to clean your home. The headlines have ranged from “Household cleaners may double risk of breast cancer”, all the way through to “Could being too houseproud raise the risk of [...]
Our head of policy, Sarah Woolnough, has written an illuminating article on the New Scientist’s S Word blog this week, highlighting our concerns that the new coalition government’s cost-cutting might threaten vital cancer research in UK universities. Along with other many other medical research charities, Cancer Research UK supports scientists working in universities across the [...]
A big problem in cancer treatment is how to deliver enough of the drugs needed to treat the tumour without causing excessive side effects. To make matters worse, cancers can develop resistance to drugs over time, meaning that increasingly higher doses and more potent cocktails of drugs are often needed to tackle the disease. But [...]
The NHS Choices blog has a neat dissection of recent headlines about a “new breast cancer drug”. In fact, scientists have carried out research using breast cancer cells in the lab. This is a long way from being any kind of “new drug”. As the NHS team highlight: “This claim is not supported by the [...]
We’ve just launched our new advertising campaign. You can watch it here: There are no actors in the advert. Instead, real cancer survivors and patients talk about the impact Cancer Research UK has had on their lives, while some of the cancer doctors we fund talk about their research. Our aim is to show the [...]