Cancer and cancer research explained

What is bowel cancer? What causes it? How many people are affected? And what is Worldwide Cancer Research doing to find new cures? 

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.

More people are surviving breast cancer than ever before, but there are still far too many lives being cut short by the disease. Research can help uncover new cures for breast cancer.

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? 

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? 

Find out all about the sixth most common cancer worldwide and how we are helping to find more cures. 

What actually is testicular cancer? And what are the symptoms to look out for? In this explainer we’ve covered the basics of everything you need to know.

What is prostate cancer? How does it begin, and who is most at risk? And how are we helping to bring new treatments to patients?

Advanced oesophageal cancer can be aggressive and hard to cure. But why is it so hard to treat? And how is discovery research providing hope for new cures?