NCRI are delighted to welcome Brain Tumour Research to our Partnership. Brain Tumour Research is the only national charity in…
The 2017 NCRI Cancer Conference: The highlights
Dr Karen Kennedy, Director of the NCRI, had the honour of opening the 2017 NCRI Cancer Conference. The NCRI is…
Training evolution in Pathology needed to deliver precision medicine in new genomics era
The future delivery of precision medicine is at risk unless pathology training programmes evolve to embrace genomics, warn UK researchers,…
Big data analysis predicts risk of radiotherapy side effects
Analysing big data to predict men’s risk of side effects could help personalise radiotherapy treatment for prostate cancer, according to…
Test could diagnose oesophageal cancer 8 years earlier
A new genetic test could help diagnose oesophageal cancer up to 8 years before symptoms appear in people at a…
Scientists exploit leaks in blood brain barrier to treat glioblastoma
An ovarian cancer drug can leak through the blood brain barrier to reach brain tumours and could be an effective…
Low testosterone levels linked to reduced risk of prostate cancer
Men with unusually low amounts of testosterone in their blood are around 20% less likely to develop prostate cancer, according…
More women than men diagnosed with bowel cancer as an emergency despite extra gp visits
More than a third (34%) of women with bowel cancer in England were diagnosed after an emergency hospital visit compared…
CTRad: Progress to date and ambitions beyond 2018
Since its inception in 2009, NCRI’s flagship initiative, the Clinical and Translational Radiotherapy Research Working Group (CTRad), has achieved considerable…
Why our Living With and Beyond Cancer initiative matters – Ceinwen’s story
Today, in the UK, around 2.5 million people have been diagnosed with cancer and this number is expected to rise…
Living With and Beyond Cancer – an NCRI initiative
Why do we need this work? Improvements in cancer diagnosis and treatment mean that people are living longer after a…
CTRad’s new strategic vision 2018-2021
In light of progress made in the past three years, CTRad’s Executive Group put together a mission statement to guide…