Cancer

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, N is for...

Shortness of breath can be terrifying for both patients and the family and friends who support them. Cambridge clinicians and researchers have...

A ‘pill on a string’ developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could help doctors detect oesophageal cancer – cancer of the gullet – at...

An ‘exhausted’ army of immune cells may not be able to fight off infection, but if its soldiers fight too hard they risk damaging the very body they...

Normal skin contains an unexpectedly high number of cancer-associated mutations, according to a study published in Science . The findings illuminate...

A dramatic video has captured the behaviour of cytotoxic T cells – the body’s ‘serial killers’ – as they hunt down and eliminate cancer cells before...

A test for a wide range of genetic risk factors could improve doctors’ ability to work out which women are at increased risk of developing breast...

One of the world’s leading childhood brain tumour experts, Professor Richard Gilbertson, has been appointed as Li Ka Shing Chair of Oncology in...