Tesco staff and customers raise record breaking £11.85 million to help beat...
Dedicated Tesco staff and customers have raised a record breaking £11.85 million in one year for Cancer Research UK’s lifesaving work. The final sum smashed the £10 million fundraising target set at...
View ArticleGreat news! Stand Up To Cancer is coming back to Channel 4 in 2014!
Great news! Stand Up To Cancer is coming back to Channel 4 in 2014! Thanks to your support, the campaign raised an incredible £8m in 2012 – money that will fund 12 new groundbreaking clinical trials in...
View ArticlePreventative mastectomies - Are they worth it?
You've probably seen in the media that Angelina Jolie has gone public with the news that she's had a double mastectomy. She doesn't have cancer, but she has been told by doctors that she has an 87 per...
View ArticleSelling hope
If you watched tonight's BBC Panorama documentary on the Burzynski Clinic, you might want to have a look at our blog post about the treatment.
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Look at us!
As most of you know, we recently welcomed our new Cancer Chat moderator Jenn. So, we thought we would take this opportunity to update our avatars to reflect the new Cancer Research brand. As you can...
View ArticleHelp protect children from tobacco marketing
This week Cancer Research UK is asking supporters to get involved with our campaign for standardised packaging of tobacco products, to help protect children from tobacco marketing.Every year 207,000...
View ArticleSome news from the team!
On Monday, ITV's This Morning launched their Male Cancer Awareness Week which culmulates tomorrow (Friday 11th) with a special Live Cancer Clinic presented by Peter Andre, whose brother recently lost...
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Today's headlines about Tamoxifen
You may have spotted headlines today claiming that women’s ‘failure’ to take the drug tamoxifen is costing ‘hundreds of lives every year’ in deaths from breast cancer. The headlines come from research...
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Prostate cancer death rate falls by a fifth in 20 years
New figures just released show that the death rate from prostate cancer has fallen by 20% in the past 20 years.In the early 1990s there were about 30 deaths per 100,000 men but this figure has fallen...
View ArticleShocking new campaign film
Our shocking new campaign film exposes the lengths the tobacco industry goes to, in recruiting new, young smokers to take up a life-long and, often deadly, habit. Please note the children in this film...
View ArticleHave you seen the news?
We’re delighted with the announcement today that the Government has commissioned an independent review of the public health evidence for standardised cigarette packaging. They have also committed to...
View ArticleCoronation Street
We know many of you will have watched last night's episode of Coronation Street and found it upsetting. If you have any questions about coping with cancer - or about symptoms, treatments or where to...
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Genes In Space
Want to play the world’s first mobile game that helps beat cancer sooner? With the help of Dara O'Briain, we’ve just launched Play To Cure: Genes In Space, an interactive space game that helps...
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Did anyone watch Bang Goes The Theory last night?
It is 60 years since a British doctor first made the link between smoking and lung cancer, and now it seems we may finally be starting to win the battle against nature's most vicious disease. Last...
View ArticleNo make up 'selfies' on Facebook
Just wanted to say I love the idea of the no make up 'selfie' craze that is circulating facebook at the moment (women and also men taking a photo of themselves without make-up and getting their friends...
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£8 Million - Thank You!
An unbelievable £8 million has now been raised thanks to your #nomakeupselfie donations! And what’s more, you achieved this in just six days. Our chief executive, Harpal Kumar, wanted to tell you...
View ArticleCancer drugs targeted to patient's own genetics to be offered in new NHS trial
Cancer patients will be offered new drugs targeted to the specific genetic profile of their disease within ten years following research that promises to revolutionise the way tumours are treated. In a...
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Unveiling our strategy to beat cancer sooner
Today, UK survival rates are higher than ever before – two in every four people will beat cancer. This is incredible progress - but there’s more to be done. That’s why we’re setting out a bold new...
View ArticlePolitics and Cancer - How will you use your vote?
Millions of us are voting on in the European elections today. Traditionally, European elections have failed to grip hearts and minds in the same way as a general election. But the fact is decisions...
View ArticleMen get breast cancer too
Every October it seems as though the world turns pink for breast cancer awareness month. And rightly so – it’s the single most common cancer in the UK, with nearly 50,000 women diagnosed every year in...
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