» Expert opinion – Constant craving: how can science help smokers to quit?
27/09/15 08:00 from Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
Science blog Ahead of a Science Museum Lates event on 30th September exploring the science of cravings, Professor Robert West from the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre at UCL explains what makes smokers crave cigarette...
» News digest – bowel cancer screening, cancer immune shield, The Sun’s miscalculation and… testing a ‘blood test’?
26/09/15 08:00 from Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
Science blog Our scientists found that more than half of those invited declined to take a new bowel cancer screening test, known as Bowel Scope. The BBC covered this; here’s our press release and the researchers behind the study blogged ...
» UK cancer survival improves but continues to lag behind best in Europe
25/09/15 21:00 from Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
News report An analysis of data from 10 million patients across Europe has shown that, between 1995 up to 2007, cancer survival figures improved across the continent. But comparing data from different regions suggests that survival in th...
» Experimental drug combination shrinks lab-grown pancreatic tumours
25/09/15 17:45 from Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
News report A combination treatment of two experimental drugs could be used to target pancreatic cancers, according to scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine in the US. "This study forms a strong basis for taking this drug...
» Stopping cancer’s scrum for survival
25/09/15 17:43 from Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
Science blog Cancer cells use an array of different techniques to try to outrun a patient’s immune system. But some of the latest cancer treatments attempt to disrupt these tactics, allowing the immune system to tackle the tumour. But, y...
» 80p of every £1 you give us is used to beat cancer: why The Sun’s article on our spending is plain wrong
24/09/15 16:59 from Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
Science blog This morning’s copy of The Sun carried a misleading story about how much UK charities spend on their ‘charitable causes’ (as opposed to on things like fundraising, salaries and pensions). According to the story, for every po...
» Promising drugs turn immune system on cancer
24/09/15 16:00 from Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
Press release Cancer Research UK scientists have shown that a class of experimental drug treatments already in clinical trials could also help the body’s immune system to fight cancer, according to a study published today (Thursday) in t...
» Our milestones: the birth of a new prostate cancer drug
21/09/15 14:22 from Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
Science blog This entry is part 24 of 24 in the series Our milestones In the latest in Our milestones, we look back to the 1990s, and to our ‘first-in-man’ trial of prostate cancer drug abiraterone – a vital step in the drug’s developmen...
» Stand Up To Cancer hosts first of its kind YouTube party
21/09/15 10:45 from Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
Press release This autumn, a host of YouTube’s brightest stars such as Caspar Lee, Dan Howell, Jim Chapman, Joe Sugg, Marcus Butler, Phil Lester and Pixiwoo will join forces with celebrities to take part in an interactive, record-breakin...
» Over fifty per cent do not go for new bowel cancer test
21/09/15 01:15 from Cancer Research UK - Cancer News
Press release MORE than half of people invited to take a new bowel cancer screening test didn’t take up the opportunity – even though it could stop them developing or dying from the disease, according to a Cancer Research UK report publi...