The MR Linac machine combines two technologies – an MRI scanner and a linear accelerator – to precisely locate tumours, tailor the shape of X-ray beams in real time, and accurately deliver doses of ...

“I prepared for my kids to grow up without me. Thanks to research, I am now cancer-free” Sophie Umhofer (pictured above), a mother of two, was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2018, aged 36.

What is the study about? IMPORT LOW investigates whether a more targeted type of radiotherapy for people with early breast cancer can reduce side effects without reducing how well the treatment works.

I am a PhD student focused on understanding the mechanisms involved in targeting the hypoxia signalling pathway in myeloid malignancies. My work aims to identify synthetically lethal vulnerabilities ...

What is the study about? HER2-RADiCAL is investigating whether some people with HER2 positive breast cancer can safely receive less treatment after surgery. HER2 is a protein which can cause cancer to ...

What is the study about? STAR-TRAP investigates treatment options for prostate cancer which has grown in small areas around the body (metastatic prostate cancer). People with metastatic prostate ...

I am a haematology registrar and second-year PhD student. My clinical and research interests are focussed on AML and improving patient outcomes for this disease. The central aim of my work is to ...

Scientists have discovered a key protein that could be targeted with a drug to treat the most common and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer. The findings, published in Nature, show that blocking the ...

The overuse of CT scans could cause over 100,000 cases of cancer in the US – with almost 10,000 cases in children, researchers have warned. According to a new modelling study, published in the journal ...

Image: A scanning electron microscope image of a prostate cancer cell. Credit: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute. CC BY-NC 4.0. At The Institute of Cancer Research, London, we often refer to ...

Twenty years ago today, the International Genome Sequencing Consortium published the first detailed analysis of the human genome. The paper appeared online in Nature on 15 February 2001, followed by a ...

The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has welcomed the approval of a new combination of two drugs for a rare form of ovarian cancer by the US regulatory body the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...