Diagnosis, prevention, treatment and cures
Understanding bowel cancer screening
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.
What do the different stages of bowel cancer mean?
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.
How do targeted therapies treat 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?
Cancer stages and grades explained – what they mean and why they matter
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.
What are incurable cancers?
Discover what incurable cancer means, which cancers are hardest to cure, and how research is offering new hope through life-extending treatments.
How is radiotherapy used to treat cancer?
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?
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.
How effective is radiotherapy?
We explore how effective radiotherapy is in treating cancer, the success rates across different types and how it helps manage or cure cancer today.