Information and impact

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.

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? 

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? 

Without the use of animals in research we would not be able to find nearly as many cures for cancer that could save millions of lives. 

What causes melanoma? What increases your risk of melanoma? How do you treat melanoma? And What is Worldwide Cancer Research doing to find new cures?

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a particularly aggressive type of breast cancer for which more research is urgently needed.