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May 18, 2013

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8:00 AM | News digest – Angelina Jolie, clinical trial transparency, testicular cancer and more

Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of breast cancer, after she learnt she carried the BRCA1 gene, resulted in blanket coverage across the media this week. You can read about her reasons for undergoing … Continue reading →

May 14, 2013

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3:36 PM | Angelina Jolie, inherited breast cancer and the BRCA1 gene

The news today is full of reaction to US actress Angelina Jolie’s decision to have surgery to reduce her chances of breast cancer. She made this difficult decision because, having lost her mother to ovarian cancer, she discovered she carries … Continue reading →

May 11, 2013

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8:00 AM | News digest – tobacco disappointment, genetic ‘fine tuners’, vaccine cost drop, and more

Wednesday was a sad day for public health. The worrying rumours we’d heard last week – that the government had scrapped plans to introduce plain, standardised tobacco packaging in the Queen’s speech – turned out to be true. This BBC … Continue reading →

May 09, 2013

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8:30 AM | A sad day for public health – standard packs and the path ahead

The 2010 film The King’s Speech was a national triumph. So at Cancer Research UK we’re dismayed to have to report that we’re not exactly rolling out the red carpet for yesterday’s Queen’s Speech. In fact, quite the opposite. The Queen’s … Continue reading →

May 04, 2013

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8:00 AM | News digest – breast cancer rates, worrying tobacco rumours, genetic maps and more

Breast cancer in women under 50 has reached 10,000 a year for the first time, according to figures we released this week. But the good news is that more women in this age group are surviving their disease. Here’s our … Continue reading →

April 30, 2013

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11:10 AM | New tricks for old drugs – blocking oestrogen to prevent breast cancer

Tamoxifen is one of the mainstays of breast cancer treatment. Since the early 1980s, it’s been given to women who’ve had breast cancer to try to stop the disease returning. As a result, it’s saved the lives of millions around … Continue reading →

Cuzick J., Sestak I., Bonanni B., Costantino J.P., Cummings S., DeCensi A., Dowsett M., Forbes J.F., Ford L. & LaCroix A.Z. & (2013). Selective oestrogen receptor modulators in prevention of breast cancer: an updated meta-analysis of individual participant data, The Lancet, DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60140-3

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April 27, 2013

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8:00 AM | News digest – radioactive bacteria, plain tobacco packs, gene patenting and more

For those who don’t know why we want the Government to legislate for plain standardised tobacco packaging, read this excellent Lancet Oncology article. We want to give children one less reason to start smoking but interestingly, our research this week … Continue reading →

April 20, 2013

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8:00 AM | News digest – misleading tobacco ads, new type of bowel cancer, platy fish and more

Lots of tobacco news this week. On Monday we learnt that smokefree legislation has been linked to a drop in emergency hospital admissions from asthma. Here’s our news story. In parliament on Tuesday, the government confirmed that it’s taking a … Continue reading →

April 13, 2013

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8:00 AM | News digest – tracking tumour evolution, leukaemia in twins, cancer screening and more

Our top story of the week comes from Cancer Research UK’s own labs. Our scientists have developed a new way of looking at how tumours evolve in real-time by tracking DNA changes in the patients’ blood. Our press release and … Continue reading →

April 06, 2013

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8:00 AM | News digest – bowel cancer increase, major NHS changes, Cancer Drugs Fund and more

April is bowel cancer awareness month, and new figures we released this week highlight the importance of the campaign. They show that bowel cancer rates among men have increased by more than a quarter in the last 35 years. The … Continue reading →

April 05, 2013

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9:23 AM | Cancer care in the new NHS in England

As of Monday (1st April) the Government’s reform of the NHS became a reality, with the Health and Social Care Act coming into force. We’ve blogged a number of times about our views on the reforms as they took shape over … Continue reading →

April 04, 2013

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5:00 PM | Expert Opinion – The challenges of lung cancer

One of our leading experts in lung cancer, Professor Dean Fennell, shares his thoughts on this devastating disease. Lung cancer is an enormous health burden both in the UK and globally. It’s incredibly common and kills roughly 35,000 people every … Continue reading →

March 30, 2013

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9:00 AM | News digest – landmark genetic study, teenage cancer, tobacco smuggling myths and more

As the cold bank holiday weekend kicks off, a week of hot cancer research news comes to a close. Here are our highlights: Our scientists were part of an international collaboration of researchers (COGS) who revealed unprecedented new detail about … Continue reading →

March 23, 2013

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9:00 AM | News digest – Budget, bowel screening, Bluetooth, kids smoking and more

The big news this week was the Budget – Chancellor George Osborne set out the government’s spending priorities for the forthcoming year. Here’s our reaction, plus a nice post from the Institute of Cancer Research looking at the implications for science … Continue reading →

March 16, 2013

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1:28 PM | News digest – breast cancer blood test, eye cancer, Tasmanian Devils and more

Our top story this week is a little left-field, and concerns a marsupial called the Tasmanian devil, which is threatened by from unique infectious cancer spread by biting. This week, researchers in Cambridge have made a big step forward in understanding how … Continue reading →

March 15, 2013

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11:36 AM | Absolute versus relative risk – making sense of media stories

What do these headlines have in common? “People who use sunbeds are 20% more likely to develop malignant melanoma” “CT scans in childhood can triple the chance of developing brain cancer” “One drink a day increases breast cancer risk by … Continue reading →

March 14, 2013

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3:28 PM | A day in the life of Birmingham Cancer Research UK Centre

Ever wondered what actually goes on inside a cancer research lab? The Birmingham Cancer Research UK Centre is a partnership between Cancer Research UK, the University of Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Birmingham Children’s Hospital Foundation Trust. Yesterday, the centre’s staff – … Continue reading →

March 12, 2013

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4:42 PM | The cost of surviving cancer – a parent’s view

Being told that your child has cancer is every parent’s worst nightmare. But 13 years ago, one of our press officers, Jane Redman, received terrible news – her daughter Amy was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Here, Jane shares her … Continue reading →

March 09, 2013

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9:00 AM | News digest – tobacco tip-off, processed meat, UK health ranking, a GameJam and more

Wednesday was our high-point this week, when we spotted this Guardian article claiming that the Government plans to legislate for standardised cigarette packaging this year. Our Chief Executive outlined why we think this legislation is so important in our news … Continue reading →

March 07, 2013

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6:05 PM | Bacon battered? Today’s headlines explained

As if the horsemeat scandal wasn’t bad enough, this morning’s headlines brought further news of the dangers of eating too much processed meat: an increased risk of an early grave. The news come from a huge Europe-wide study – called … Continue reading →

Rohrmann S., Overvad K., Bueno-de-Mesquita H.B., Jakobsen M.U., Egeberg R., Tjonneland A., Nailler L., Boutron-Ruault M.C., Clavel-Chapelon F. & Krogh V. & (2013). Meat consumption and mortality - results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, BMC Medicine, 11 (1) 63. DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-63

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10:17 AM | Guest post – “The first and last time she’d ever use a sunbed”

Rob Hall is an Environmental Health Officer for Bury Council in Greater Manchester, with more than 10 years’ experience. The Sunbeds (Regulation) Act 2010 – introduced after lengthy parliamentary debate and campaigning - makes it illegal for businesses to allow anyone … Continue reading →

March 06, 2013

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7:00 PM | Leaders team up to combat cancer worldwide

Today, leaders from cancer organisations across the world – from Australia to Argentina, and Taiwan to Turkey – have issued a joint statement about how to address the growing burden of cancer worldwide. It’s the first time that so many … Continue reading →

March 05, 2013

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3:29 PM | Report from GameJam: accelerating science outside the laboratory

Imagine that you could help beat cancer just by playing a game on your smart phone. It might sound far-fetched, but we’re working to make this idea a reality. Over the weekend of 1-3 March we brought together Cancer Research … Continue reading →

March 02, 2013

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9:00 AM | News – bowel cancer chaos, breast cancer stats, citizen science and more

This week’s big science story comes from our London Research Institute, where researchers have found a molecular mechanism that causes extreme chromosomal chaos in bowel cancer. The BBC had this take, while we took a look at the science behind … Continue reading →

March 01, 2013

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12:15 PM | Breast cancer in the UK: can we do even better?

In the UK we’re making great progress against breast cancer – over 85 per cent of women diagnosed with the disease survive for at least five years. And around two thirds of all women diagnosed with breast cancer can expect … Continue reading →

Walters S., Maringe C., Butler J., Rachet B., Barrett-Lee P., Bergh J., Boyages J., Christiansen P., Lee M. & Wärnberg F. & (2013). Breast cancer survival and stage at diagnosis in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the UK, 2000-2007: a population-based study, British Journal of Cancer, DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2013.6

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12:02 AM | Can the power of the public help personalise cancer treatment?

Tonight, leading technology experts, hackers and scientists will gather in London to get ready for a weekend with a difference – Cancer Research UK’s GameJam event. Over the next 48 hours, forty ‘hackers’ will be embedding raw anonymised gene data … Continue reading →

February 28, 2013

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5:20 PM | MPs have a go at ‘citizen science’

We’ve been talking about our new ‘citizen science’ work a fair bit recently on this blog. But it’s important to make sure that MPs are up to date with our latest projects. So yesterday we went to Parliament to tell … Continue reading →

February 25, 2013

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2:53 PM | Introducing our latest arsenal in the fight against cancer

Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we’re able to spend hundreds of millions of pounds every year on life-saving cancer research. And our highly experienced Science Committee makes sure this money goes to fund the most creative, promising and … Continue reading →

February 23, 2013

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9:00 AM | News digest – galaxies and tumours, childhood cancer trials, doctor delays, and more

The number one reason people say they might delay seeing their GP is difficulty making an appointment. Our press release has more info and the story was widely covered in regional media, and in The Independent. Overly complex EU clinical … Continue reading →

February 20, 2013

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12:01 AM | Stargazing to spot cancer

Today our researchers announce the results of an exciting project bringing together two unlikely scientific bedfellows – astronomy and pathology. Back in 2010, Dr Raza Ali and his team at our Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute joined forces with the University … Continue reading →

Ali H.R., Irwin M., Morris L., Dawson S.J., Blows F.M., Provenzano E., Mahler-Araujo B., Pharoah P.D., Walton N.A. & Brenton J.D. & (2013). Astronomical algorithms for automated analysis of tissue protein expression in breast cancer., British journal of cancer, PMID: 23329232

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