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Queen's Jubilee Birthday Honours
2 Jun 2022
Many congratulations to Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald for being awarded an OBE in the 2022 Queen's Jubilee Birthday Honours List.
Using artificial intelligence to find skin cancer earlier: the technology is not yet ready for use in primary care
25 May 2022
Artificial Intelligence (AI) aimed at detecting skin cancer is not yet ready for use in primary care settings, due to a lack of evidence in settings where the prevalence of skin cancer is low, according to CanTest researchers.
Royal Society Fellows 2022
9 May 2022
Congratulations to Centre Director Professor Richard Gilbertson on being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
£6.4 million for pioneering Cambridge 'sponge on a string' trial
28 Apr 2022
Millions of pounds in funding has been announced for a trial that could pave the way for a ‘sponge on a string’ test to be established as a routine screening programme to detect Barrett’s oesophagus – a condition that can lead to oesophageal cancer.
Whole genome sequencing uncovers genetic damage that causes cancer
22 Apr 2022
Largest study of whole genome sequencing data reveals new clues to causes of cancer.
Deep learning and disease detection
7 Apr 2022
Marcel Gehring co-founded Cyted with Rebecca Fitzgerald, Professor of Cancer Prevention at the University of Cambridge and Maria O’Donovan, lead pathologist for upper gastrointestinal cancer and diagnostic cytology at Addenbrooke's.
The early detection of cancer – challenges and ways forward
22 Mar 2022
A review article published in Science Magazine, co-authored by Cambridge researchers, explores the challenges we need to overcome to improve the early detection of cancer.
Personalised blood test can detect risk of lung cancer relapse
17 Mar 2022
Patients who are at a higher risk of their lung cancer returning can be identified by a personalised blood test that is performed after treatment, according to Cambridge researchers.
Cambridge Festival 2022
2 Mar 2022
Bookings are now open for the Cambridge Festival which will take place from 30 March to 10 April, with hundreds of free events and activities for everyone.
Shining a light on mutational dark matter
4 Nov 2021
Researchers from our Early Detection Programme have discovered a way of measuring how many potentially cancer-causing mutations remain to be discovered across the human genome.