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Breast cancer
Do dietary fats help cancer spread and can they be stopped?
This project aims to reveal how parts of our diet could help cancer to spread and how to target this process to create future cures for a range of different cancers.
Researcher: Professor Salvador Aznar-Benitah
Do dietary fats help cancer spread and can they be stopped?
Complete Australia
Breast cancer
Can we attract more immune system cells to defeat breast cancer?
Researchers are aiming to find out how to kick-start the immune system in aggressive breast cancer patients so that survival rates improve in the future.
Researcher: Professor Tony Tiganis
Kick-starting the immune system in an aggressive type of breast cancerWe have funded over £220m of research worldwide since 1979 and cancer survival rates have doubled in that time.
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