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Cancer researcher Tom Else sitting in a lab wearing a white lab coat

Sight and sound

06 Aug 2024
How photoacoustics could transform cancer detection and monitoring
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Scientists can detect brain tumours using a simple urine or blood plasma test

23 Jul 2021
Researchers from the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute have developed two tests that can detect the presence of glioma, a type of brain tumour...
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Attack of the Crab Monsters (cropped)

Stopping tumour cells killing surrounding tissue may provide clue to fighting cancer

04 Feb 2016
Tumours kill off surrounding cells to make room to grow, according to new research from the University of Cambridge. Although the study was carried...
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11C metomidate PET CT of small Conn's tumour

New research leaves tumours with nowhere to hide

24 Sep 2015
Hidden tumours that cause potentially fatal high blood pressure but lurk undetected in the body until pregnancy have been discovered by a Cambridge...
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Professor Richard Gilbertson

Childhood brain tumour expert to lead Cambridge Cancer Centre

26 Mar 2015
One of the world’s leading childhood brain tumour experts, Professor Richard Gilbertson, has been appointed as Li Ka Shing Chair of Oncology in...
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An abdominal tumour (outlined in white) 'feeding on' carbon-13-labelled glucose (orange) provides a means of testing when cancer drugs are effective enough to affect the health of the tumour

Watching the death throes of tumours

25 Feb 2015
A clinical trial due to begin later this year will see scientists observing close up, in real time – and in patients – how tumours respond to new...
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Scientists discover a molecular ‘switch’ in cancers of the testis and ovary

01 Aug 2013
Research could lead to new drugs to turn ‘switch’ off.
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A small colony of cells derived from a single blood stem cell.  Hundreds of such colonies were assessed for their proliferation kinetics and blood cell types produced.

Unraveling tumour growth one stem cell at a time

04 Jun 2013
Study has relevance to all cancers that are suspected to have a stem cell origin
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Genetic ‘fine tuning’ controls body’s own attack against breast cancer

05 May 2013 Read more

Scientists develop simple blood test to track tumour evolution in cancer patients

02 May 2013
Research sheds light on how tumours develop drug resistance
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