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Cancer research

June 2024

  • Large screen showing implements inside body

    Scientists develop glowing dye that sticks to cancer cells in breakthrough study

    Experts say fluorescent dye, which spotlights tiny cancerous tissue invisible to naked eye, could reduce risk of cancer returning
  • Elliot Pfebve in a hospital chair is treated by Hayley Rolfe in a blue NHS uniform

    ‘Off the charts’: the key breakthroughs giving new hope in treating cancer

    World’s largest cancer conference in Chicago shares ‘impressive’ findings in vaccines, drug trials and AI
  • Nurse Christian Medina handles the needle used to administer a patient with his first jab at the University College London Hospital

    ‘Extremely impressive’: melanoma jab trial results excite doctors

    Vaccine approach will help improve survival rates for ‘the next decades and more’, says Cancer Research UK’s chief clinician

May 2024

  • Three middle-aged men walking across the South Downs way.

    Scientists develop cheap and quick spit test for prostate cancer

  • Conceptual illustration of a needle going into a tumour

    What are cancer vaccines and have scientists finally found a cure?

  • Elliot Pfebre sitting on chair surrounded by smiling hospital staff

    NHS patients in England to be offered trials for world-first cancer vaccine

  • Two people lean against a metal fence and hold up white and orange umbrellas

    Rates of melanoma skin cancer hit all-time high in UK, study finds

  • Scientists make potential breast cancer breakthrough after preserving tissue in gel

  • Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning ‘by more than seven years’

  • Science Weekly
    The extraordinary promise of personalised cancer vaccines

April 2024

  • A doctor holding a pen and piece of paper sits opposite a male patient

    Prostate cancer cases worldwide likely to double by 2040, analysis finds

    Largest study of its kind predicts 85% increase in deaths from the disease in same period as more men live longer

March 2024

  • Aerial view of the hands of a scientist pouring fluid with the pipette into a petri dish.

    Cancer signs could be spotted years before symptoms, says new research institute

  • CT scan of the head of a young woman who has multiple sclerosis

    Science Weekly
    The virus that infects almost everyone, and its link to cancer and MS – podcast

  • Princess of Wales recording her message

    Cancer charities praise ‘brave’ Princess of Wales for speaking about her diagnosis

  • A consultant analysing a mammogram.

    Medics design AI tool to predict side-effects in breast cancer patients

  • AstraZeneca to buy Canadian cancer specialist Fusion for $2.4bn

  • She beat a rare liver cancer – and now works with her father to find more cures

  • Black Box
    Episode 4 – Bing and I

  • UK cancer study shows big fall in death rates since early 1990s

  • Science Weekly
    What’s behind the rapid rise of cancer in the under-50s? – podcast

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