Cancer and research information

What is the relationship between sugar and cancer treatment? A Worldwide Cancer Research scientist explains how sugar could be used to help enhance the effect of cancer treatments.

Discover how bowel cancer screening saves lives, where it falls short globally, and how research like ours is helping to detect cancer earlier and move toward cures.

Discover what each stage of bowel cancer means and how Curestarter support is helping research to transform treatment from early detection to advanced cancer breakthroughs.

Targeted cancer therapies work in a very different way to most other cancer treatments. But what are they and how exactly do they work? How is our research helping to make targeted therapy a reality for thousands of patients? 

Cancer terminology can be complex and confusing. Find out more about cancer staging and grading and what that means, how it's done, and why it's important. 

Discover what incurable cancer means, which cancers are hardest to cure, and how research is offering new hope through life-extending treatments.

Pancreatic cancer is a type of cancer that has seen some improvements in survival rates but it continues to be one of the most difficult types of cancer to diagnose and treat. Why is that the case?

Radiotherapy is one of the UK’s most commonly used cancer treatments. But what is it, how does it work, and how is research making radiotherapy better, and kinder? 

What is chemotherapy? How does it work, and how is it different to other cancer treatments? Discover how our research is advancing breakthroughs to improve chemotherapy for patients.