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We are are helping to end death and disease caused by cancer, saving more lives by detecting early and personalising treatments. The experiences of patients and their families shape every stage of research and of plans for the Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital, as we work together to change the story of cancer.

Professor Jean Abraham speaking to a patient

Cambridge is changing the story of cancer

15 July 2024

Find out about groundbreaking cancer research at Cambridge, including our planned new hospital, how we're studying the earliest stages of cancer, how AI is helping fight the disease, and the patients playing a key role in our work.

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An abdominal tumour (outlined in white) 'feeding on' carbon-13-labelled glucose (orange) provides a means of testing when cancer drugs are effective enough to affect the health of the tumour

Watching the death throes of tumours

25 Feb 2015

A clinical trial due to begin later this year will see scientists observing close up, in real time – and in patients – how tumours respond to new...

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Red blood cells (illustration)

Order matters: sequence of genetic mutations determines how cancer behaves

11 Feb 2015

The order in which genetic mutations are acquired determines how an individual cancer behaves, according to research from the University of Cambridge...

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SEM image of normal red blood cells, computer-coloured red

Computer model of blood development could speed up search for new leukaemia drugs

09 Feb 2015

The first comprehensive computer model to simulate the development of blood cells could help in the development of new treatments for leukaemia and...

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Celestial bodies

04 Feb 2015

Astronomy and oncology do not make obvious bedfellows, but the search for new stars and galaxies has surprising similarities with the search for...

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First of new generation of cancer drugs granted European approval

18 Dec 2014

A new drug for ovarian cancer, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and AstraZeneca, has today become the first of new class of...

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Metastatic Breast Cancer in Pleural Fluid

Drugging the undruggable: discovery opens up possibility of slowing cancer spread

12 Nov 2014

A trawl through a library of more than 50,000 ‘small molecules’ has identified a potential candidate to inhibit the spread of cancer cells throughout...

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Breast cells grown in the laboratory for research on which cells in the breast form tumours

Cancer Core Europe: institutes unite across Europe to tackle cancer

26 Sep 2014

Launched today (26 September), Cancer Core Europe brings together six cancer centres – including the Cambridge Cancer Centre at the University of...

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Sleeping dogs

Global snapshot of infectious canine cancer shows how to control the disease

03 Sep 2014

While countries with dog control policies have curbed an infectious and gruesome canine cancer, the disease is continuing to lurk in the majority of...

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Fighting prostate cancer with a tomato-rich diet

28 Aug 2014

Men who eat over 10 portions a week of tomatoes have an 18 per cent lower risk of developing prostate cancer, new research suggests.

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A cancer cell containing the nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are coloured green, and have entered the nucleus, which is the area in blue

“Trojan horse” treatment could beat brain tumours

13 Aug 2014

A smart technology which involves smuggling gold nanoparticles into brain cancer cells has proven highly effective in lab-based tests.

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Killer T-cell

Immune cells found near tumours boost breast cancer survival

10 Jun 2014

Women with breast cancer are 10 per cent more likely to survive for five years or more if they have certain immune cells near their tumour, according...

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Multiple copies of the TRIM44 gene in an oesophageal cancer cell line

Oesophageal cancer gene identified

08 May 2014

A newly-discovered gene linked to oesophageal cancer holds the promise of new treatments for this notoriously difficult-to-fight disease.

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