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We are are helping to end death and disease caused by cancer, saving more lives by detecting early and personalising treatments. The experiences of patients and their families shape every stage of research and of plans for the Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital, as we work together to change the story of cancer.

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Cancer isn’t fair – but care should be

04 February 2024

Listening to people's lived experiences is helping to improve the awareness and uptake of cancer care. On World Cancer Day, we take a look at some of the ways researchers are working with communities to ‘close the cancer care gap’.

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Study provides clues to why some breast cancers are hard to beat

10 May 2016

Scientists have unearthed crucial new genetic information about how breast cancer develops and the genetic changes which can be linked to survival...

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Scientists double number of known genetic risk factors for endometrial cancer

03 May 2016

An international collaboration of researchers has identified five new gene regions that increase a woman’s risk of developing endometrial cancer, one...

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Study identifies gene changes that influence timing of sexual behaviour

18 Apr 2016

A study of over 380,000 people, published today in the journal Nature Genetics , has identified gene differences that influence the age of puberty...

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Breast cancer genetic variants found to alter how cells respond to oestrogen

29 Feb 2016

An international study of almost 120,000 women has newly identified five genetic variants affecting risk of breast cancer, all of which are believed...

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Fruits & Vegetables

Could the food we eat affect our genes? Study in yeast suggests this may be the case

11 Feb 2016

Almost all of our genes may be influenced by the food we eat, according to new research published in the journal Nature Microbiology . The study...

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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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Second contagious form of cancer found in Tasmanian devils

28 Dec 2015

Transmissible cancers – cancers which can spread between individuals by the transfer of living cancer cells – are believed to arise extremely rarely...

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Addenbrooke's Hospital

Low cost, safe and accurate test could help diagnose rare childhood cancers

16 Dec 2015

A non-invasive, low cost blood test that could help doctors diagnose some types of malignant childhood tumour has been developed by researchers at...

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Tasmanian Devils and the transmissible cancer that threatens their extinction

14 Oct 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, T is for...

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A whole host of options

09 Oct 2015

Almost one in four of the world’s cases of tuberculosis (TB) are in India and the disease is constantly adapting itself to outwit our medicines...

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Maintaining healthy DNA delays menopause

28 Sep 2015

An international study of nearly 70,000 women has identified more than forty regions of the human genome that are involved in governing at what age a...

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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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