All of the stories below were heard at the National Cancer Research Institute annual conference 2017 in Liverpool.  ‘Sugar’ sponges for brain tumours We often say that the genetic and molecular properties of cancer are really important. But we shouldn’t forget that cancer is a physical ...

A study in mice shows how a new experimental drug could be a highly targeted treatment for brain cancer. The research, co-funded by the charity Worldwide Cancer Research and published in the journal Nature, establishes a path forward for generating a novel class of drugs that could also be used for ...

New research published by Worldwide Cancer Research scientist Professor Adrian Whitehouse and his team points to a potential new way to prevent the rare cancer Kaposi’s sarcoma. Their work is published in the journal Nature Microbiology this week. Kaposi’s sarcoma appears as localised tumour...