Cancer

You may have heard about a new study into contraception and cancer recently. New information about cancer risks can be hard to apply to everyday life, and headlines about this paper are highlighting some alarming-looking numbers. If you or someone you’re close to uses hormonal contraception, there’s a chance you’re asking what the latest findings
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From clonal evolution to metastasis and cachexia, Mariam Jamal-Hanjani has taken on some serious challenges during her research journey. We spoke to her and asked her to reflect on a career embedded in large-scale, collaborative and ambitious projects… The work cancer researchers undertake has incredible ambition. Perhaps understandable then, that it’s so often described in
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Excellent patient and public involvement (PPI) plays an essential role in health and social care research. Members of the public, as those benefiting from research, should have a say in decisions that impact them. Their perspective and lived experience can increase the relevance, impact and quality of research. That’s why Cancer Research UK has been
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How does weight impact cancer risk? What can we do to make breakthrough immunotherapies work for more people? And why are viruses that infected our ancestors millions of years ago contributing to how cancers develop today? Those are some of the biggest questions in cancer research. Answering them won’t be easy, but it has the
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Twenty nine years and still going strong! When I was finishing up nursing school in 1994, computers were a novelty. I still researched my school papers using the card catalogue and email was just starting to gain popularity. In a small office at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Joel Goldwein was playing around with creating
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This blog shares some ways to tell if a new or existing lump could be a sarcoma and, if so, what steps you should take next. If you are not sure, see your primary care provider. What is Sarcoma? A sarcoma is a type of cancer that forms in bone or soft tissues like muscle, nerves, fat,
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Breast cancer cells might use bioelectric signals to influence their behaviour. NIH / CC BY-NC 2.0 You’re electric. Not in a charge-via-USB, keep-away-from-water kind of way – but electric all the same. We all are. Electricity is a big part of how our bodies work. Our cells need to keep certain chemicals inside and push
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©Shuttershock Vaccinations (vaccines) have been a game changer in the medical world and human health. They’ve helped protect us from measles and mumps, polio, and most recently COVID-19. They’ve even eradicated smallpox, one of the deadliest diseases in human history. Can they do something similar for cancer? Many vaccines are made from weakened or harmless
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Treating brain tumours means finding ways to kill mutated cells like these without harming healthy ones. ©2011 Michael Bonert. CC BY-SA 3.0. Temozolomide, a chemotherapy drug discovered and developed by our scientists, changed brain tumour treatment forever. That’s not overselling it. Temozolomide was the first drug to improve survival for people with the most common
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Dr Jacqui Marshall reports back from the Eureka international course on translational medicine in Sicily. Insight from industry experts, the importance of patient advocates and even a spot of well-earned gelato – Jacqui gives us a real flavour of this incredible opportunity… not to mention the ice cream. Winding streets, a historical palace and patchy
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Michelle Mitchell, chief executive of Cancer Research UK Michelle Mitchell, chief executive of Cancer Research UK Saturday was World Cancer Day, for which the theme was ‘closing the gap in cancer care’ – a topic that is sadly, only too relevant to the UK. The 2022 parliamentary inquiry into cancer care has shown that England
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