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Get hands-on with cancer research in Cambridge!
12 Feb 2024
Join us on Saturday 16 March from 11am – 4pm for the Big Biomedical Campus day at the Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology.
Cancer isn’t fair – but care should be
4 Feb 2024
To mark World Cancer Day on 4 February, and its campaign to make cancer care fair and equitable, we take a look at some of the ways researchers and the planned Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital are working with communities to ‘close the cancer care gap'.
New trial brings screening for oesophageal cancer closer
9 Jan 2024
A man from Cambridge is the first to join the surveillance part of a clinical trial that could see routine screening for oesophageal cancer introduced into the NHS, potentially halving deaths from this cancer every year.
Early Cancer Institute Seminar
21 Nov 2023
Etiologic studies of gastrointestinal cancers: opportunities & implications by Gwen Murphy, Imperial College London on Tuesday 21 November, 12:30-14:00 at the Early Cancer Institute.
Early Cancer Institute Annual Symposium 2023
14 Sep 2023
Taking place on Thursday 14 September, 14:00–17:30 at the CRUK Cambridge Institute lecture theatre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
International collaboration identifies new breast cancer susceptibility genes
17 Aug 2023
The study, published today in Nature Genetics, was led by teams at the University of Cambridge and Université Laval, Quebec.
Cancer scientist set for fifth Race for Life in Cambridge
16 Jun 2023
A Cambridge scientist is urging people to back life-saving research and join her in entering Race for Life.
Charles Massie 1978 – 2023
24 May 2023
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Charles Massie, Early Cancer Institute Group Leader, after a long battle with cancer, on 5 May 2023, at the age of 45.
Multi-million investment in early cancer tests
22 May 2023
The Cambridge team behind Cytosponge – the 'sponge on a string' which identifies people at risk of oesophageal cancer – is expanding its work in the UK and beyond following a £13.4 million investment.
Centre members elected to Academy of Medical Sciences 2023
18 May 2023
Congratulations to Charlotte Coles, Eric Miska and Serena Nik-Zainal who have been elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship.