At an expert meeting on 18 January 2010, colleagues at Cancer Research UK were privileged to hear Dr Joan Austoker present her latest research. The work provided the usual clear and surprising insights that we’d come to depend on from Joan and her team.
And though these colleagues could not have known it, they were especially [...]
This week, the Department of Health is launching a new advertising campaign to raise awareness of how alcohol can affect your health in the long-term.
Many of us are aware of the short-term effects of drinking too much – feeling sick, a hangover, a spot of embarrassment, a vague but hard-to-pin-down sense of guilt – but [...]
Yesterday, we went to Downing Street to present the Save Your Skin petition to health minister Gillian Merron, who came to give Government support to the Bill.
The petition has been signed by over 10,000 people, and is backed by The Sun newspaper.
The huge support this petition has had is fantastic, and just shows how much the [...]
Late last year, the Department of Health announced a new pilot scheme to find out if computer programmes could help GPs to estimate a patient’s risk of cancer.
This is one of a number of measures that the Government, and organisations like us, are introducing as part of a drive to detect cancers at an earlier [...]
We’ve recently written about how to become a cancer researcher, taking the traditional route from a degree in science through to a PhD and ultimately running a research group. But there are many people working to beat cancer who get into science a different way.
Kathy Tier works with Cancer Research UK scientists at [...]
Cancer and AIDS – two of the most powerful and emotive words in the English language, and two diseases that touch the lives of millions of people across the world. Many researchers dedicate their lives to studying them.
Cancer Research UK is working tirelessly towards beating cancer. And thanks to our pioneering work, countless lives have [...]
Cancer screening is never straightforward. At first glance, it seems like an obviously good idea. By searching for early signs of cancer in apparently healthy people, doctors can spot cases of disease when they can be most easily treated, or even spot hallmarks of the disease’s early stages. Lives could be saved.
But the reality is [...]
Cancer Research UK’s work is helping people to beat cancer. Our scientific research into new treatments has, over the years, contributed to 19 of the top 20 cancer drugs used to treat people worldwide.
We fund around 4,800 scientists, doctors and nurses in a network of universities, institutes and hospitals across the UK.
But it might not [...]
Today in Parliament we held a briefing for MPs to kick start Julie Morgan’s bid to take forward a Private Member’s Bill on sunbeds, which would protect children and teenagers from the dangers of sunbeds.
The Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Secretary of State for Health, came to show his support along with Nicola Roberts from [...]
At Cancer Research UK, we’ve set ourselves some ambitious goals for beating cancer. One of them is that we will continue to support the development of young scientists, so that we can continue our research work.
But how do people become scientists? And how does Cancer Research UK support their development? In this post we’ll look [...]