Diagnosis, prevention, treatment and cures

General cancer research
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.

Breast cancer
How curable is breast cancer?

Learn how curable breast cancer is, how survival rates vary by stage, and how research like ours is helping more people live longer, healthier lives.

Multiple cancers
How is surgery used to treat cancer?

How exactly is surgery used to treat cancer? How much has it changed over the years and what will cancer surgery look like in the future? 

Multiple cancers
What is immunotherapy?

Find out what immunotherapy is, how it works and how discovery research is helping immunotherapy cure cancer.

Cervical cancer
Can cervical cancer be cured?

Cervical cancer is the 7th most common cancer worldwide, but around the world case numbers have been dropping dramatically. How has this happened and could there be a cure?

Cervical cancer
I don’t want anyone to know the pain of losing their Jade

Courtney always looked up to her big sister, Jade. She viewed her as a second mother; someone who was always there for her when she needed her. Now she's on a mission to start new cancer cures in her memory.

Multiple cancers
All about the breakthrough cancer drug olaparib

Developed thanks to the support of charities like Worldwide Cancer Research, olaparib has so far been used to treat over 140,000 cancer patients worldwide.

Multiple cancers
Stages and grades in cancer - what do they mean?

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.