We want to make sure our trials are inclusive and accessible to everyone affected by cancer, no matter their background, ethnic group or personal circumstances. When designing trials we work with ...

These days, in the era of personalised medicine, whenever researchers discover a new cancer drug they are expected to show exactly how it works and to prove that it is exerting its therapeutic effect ...

Twenty years ago today, the International Genome Sequencing Consortium published the first detailed analysis of the human genome. The paper appeared online in Nature on 15 February 2001, followed by a ...

The overuse of CT scans could cause over 100,000 cases of cancer in the US – with almost 10,000 cases in children, researchers have warned. According to a new modelling study, published in the journal ...

Image: KRAS-mutated cancer cells. Credit Lisa Pickard / Louise Howell / ICR Researchers are set to to combine expertise in drug discovery, artificial intelligence (AI), and experimental cancer models ...

Darwinian evolution has influenced and inspired the rapidly growing field of evolutionary medicine that uses evolution to approach the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of human diseases. Cancer ...

Scientists have discovered a key protein that could be targeted with a drug to treat the most common and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer. The findings, published in Nature, show that blocking the ...

A new drug is having a dramatic effect on shrinking lung cancer tumours, according to new research. A trial testing the drug zongertinib as a first treatment for people with advanced lung cancer who ...

Image: A scanning electron microscope image of a prostate cancer cell. Credit: Anne Weston, Francis Crick Institute. CC BY-NC 4.0. At The Institute of Cancer Research, London, we often refer to ...

Cutting edge proton beam therapy is no better than intensity-modulated radiotherapy for treating people with head and neck cancer, according to new research. The nationwide TORPEdO trial funded by ...

Two decades ago, a pivotal exchange between two scientists sparked a scientific and medical revolution. Professor Alan Ashworth, then Director of the Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre at ...

A spit test, where a sample can be collected at home, is more accurate at identifying future risk of prostate cancer for some men than the current standard PSA blood test, a new study reports. Results ...