Illustration of a woman getting a breast screening test

Back to BRCA: the discovery of a breast cancer risk gene

07 October 2024

In 1994, a landmark paper identified a gene – BRCA1 – that significantly increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancers when faulty. Thirty years on, we look at the major impact it has had on how we understand and treat cancer – and why there is still much to learn.

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Lung with two metastatic lesions derived from a mouse primary triple-negative breast tumour

Cancer researchers and astronomers join forces in fight against disease

13 September 2024

A unique collaboration of astronomers and cancer researchers at Cambridge has been awarded more than £5m to establish the Spatial Profiling and Annotation Centre of Excellence (SPACE) to open up access to their groundbreaking cancer mapping technology and establish collaborations with other scientists to enable them to investigate tumours in 3D.

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A colour-enhanced image showing a clump of prostate cancer cells

Together against prostate cancer

13 August 2024

New, repurposed and combined treatments could soon transform prostate cancer outcomes, with DNA repair research informing promising clinical trials at Cambridge.

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