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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.

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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Celestial bodies

04 Feb 2015

Astronomy and oncology do not make obvious bedfellows, but the search for new stars and galaxies has surprising similarities with the search for...

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First of new generation of cancer drugs granted European approval

18 Dec 2014

A new drug for ovarian cancer, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and AstraZeneca, has today become the first of new class of...

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Stethoscope and notes

Delays in cancer diagnosis unlikely to be due to poor medical practice

10 Dec 2014

Delays in referrals for suspected cancer are unlikely to be down to poor performance by GPs, argue a team of researchers today in the British Medical...

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Metastatic Breast Cancer in Pleural Fluid

Drugging the undruggable: discovery opens up possibility of slowing cancer spread

12 Nov 2014

A trawl through a library of more than 50,000 ‘small molecules’ has identified a potential candidate to inhibit the spread of cancer cells throughout...

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Cancer Core Europe: institutes unite across Europe to tackle cancer

26 Sep 2014

Launched today (26 September), Cancer Core Europe brings together six cancer centres – including the Cambridge Cancer Centre at the University of...

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Vitamin D

One in ten people over forty years old in Britain are vitamin D deficient

26 Sep 2014

As many as one in ten people in Britain over forty years old may be vitamin D deficient, according to a study carried out by researchers at the...

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Sleeping dogs

Global snapshot of infectious canine cancer shows how to control the disease

03 Sep 2014

While countries with dog control policies have curbed an infectious and gruesome canine cancer, the disease is continuing to lurk in the majority of...

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Fighting prostate cancer with a tomato-rich diet

28 Aug 2014

Men who eat over 10 portions a week of tomatoes have an 18 per cent lower risk of developing prostate cancer, new research suggests.

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A cancer cell containing the nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are coloured green, and have entered the nucleus, which is the area in blue

“Trojan horse” treatment could beat brain tumours

13 Aug 2014

A smart technology which involves smuggling gold nanoparticles into brain cancer cells has proven highly effective in lab-based tests.

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Breast cancer cells

Gene increases risk of breast cancer to one in three by age seventy

06 Aug 2014

Breast cancer risks for one of potentially the most important genes associated with breast cancer after the BRCA1/2 genes are today reported in the...

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Killer T-cell

Immune cells found near tumours boost breast cancer survival

10 Jun 2014

Women with breast cancer are 10 per cent more likely to survive for five years or more if they have certain immune cells near their tumour, according...

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Multiple copies of the TRIM44 gene in an oesophageal cancer cell line

Oesophageal cancer gene identified

08 May 2014

A newly-discovered gene linked to oesophageal cancer holds the promise of new treatments for this notoriously difficult-to-fight disease.

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