Researchers’ discovery of the BRCA genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, has allowed us to think differently about cancer. When the genes were discovered over 30 years ago, scientists finally had the evidence to ...

Life moves pretty fast, but AI moves even faster. Just two years ago, people were still poking fun at AI models for failing to count the number of r’s in the word strawberry. Now, we’re wondering if ...

Understanding who develops pancreatic cancer requires linking lifetime exposures to their biology. Here, Núria Malats explores how molecular epidemiology could help us understand the exposome and ...

Human bowel cancer cells. Annie Cavanagh. Source: Wellcome Collection. Childhood exposure to a toxin produced by E. coli could be contributing to the rise of bowel cancer in under-50s, according to ...

Every year, the world’s cancer researchers gather in Chicago for the biggest date in their calendar: the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting. ASCO is where cancer scientists ...

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series International researchers Series Navigation << Why the Government needs to do more to attract international researchers Cancer research at risk: the growing ...

Thanks to advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment, more than one million deaths have been avoided in the UK since the mid-1980s.* But progress like this doesn’t come easily – not when ...

This is the third instalment of our series on health inequalities, where we explore the unfair and avoidable differences in cancer incidence and outcomes across society. Our last post looked at ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is part of the World Health Organization (WHO). T. Schneider/Shutterstock.com Forever chemicals, known to scientists as poly and perfluoroalkyl ...

How do you like your tea? No, we’re not asking how much milk you take, but rather, how hot you like to drink it. A new study from the University of Oxford suggests that people who reported drinking ...

For more than a decade, a multidisciplinary group of experts, including academics, clinicians and data experts, from the International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) have been reporting on the ...

The results of an analysis published by Cancer Research UK today estimate that more than 21 million UK adults will be obese by 2040, which equates to almost 4 in 10 of the UK adult population (36%).