Diagnosis, prevention and treatment

We explore how effective radiotherapy is in treating cancer, the success rates across different types and how it helps manage or cure cancer today.

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? 

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

There are many reasons why cancer is so difficult to cure, largely including the sheer complexity of the disease. But there is also reason to be optimistic for the future. 

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.