Cancer Research UK has appointed Professor Mariam Jamal-Hanjani as its new chief clinician. She will take up the role on 6 ...

We eat differently, work differently and play differently than the people who were here just a couple of generations before us, in environments they might struggle to recognise. And while we tend to ...

CanRisk could help doctors identify women who would benefit from starting breast screening earlier. What if all it took to understand your risk of one of the most common types of cancer was a computer ...

Everyone deserves the chance to live a long and healthy life, free from the fear of cancer. But people living in the most deprived areas of the UK have higher cancer rates than those in the least ...

This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series The National Cancer Plan for England: A closer look Series Navigation << Tackling variation in cancer treatment: can the National Cancer Plan deliver? The ...

Every year, the world’s cancer researchers gather in Chicago for the biggest date in their calendar: the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting. ASCO is where cancer scientists ...

Bigger animals should have a higher risk of cancer, but the disease is very rare in elephants. (Timmy V Photography/Shutterstock.com) This post is 3 years old, so ...

Prostate Cancer cell image taken using a Scanning Electron Microscope. Credit: LRI EM Unit The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has recommended that all UK nations implement targeted prostate ...

Prostate cancer cell spheroid, SEM. Izzat Suffian, David McCarthy & Khuloud T. Al-Jamal. Source: Wellcome Collection. (CC BY 4.0) If you’ve seen much live music, you’ll know what it’s like when the ...

This is the third instalment of our series on health inequalities, where we explore the unfair and avoidable differences in cancer incidence and outcomes across society. Our last post looked at ...

For more than a decade, a multidisciplinary group of experts, including academics, clinicians and data experts, from the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) have been reporting on the ...

Cancer Research UK's research and campaigning helped make the Tobacco and Vapes Act possible. Parliament has passed the Tobacco and Vapes Act, starting the process of phasing out the legal sale of ...