Press Archive
 | 2012 Press ArchiveAn scientist from the ICR and The Royal Marsden has received one of four prestigious Cancer Research UK Clinical Scientist Fellowships to identify new ways to detect and treat advanced prostate cancer. |
 | 2011 Press ArchiveEurope’s leading cancer research centre, The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), named eminent scientist Professor Alan Ashworth as its new Chief Executive. |
| 2010 Press ArchivePhase III trial results show the drug abiraterone, developed at the ICR, can significantly extend overall survival for men with advanced prostate cancer. |
| 2009 Press Archive2009 marked the centenary year for the ICR, which began life as a small research laboratory in the Royal Marsden Hospital. |
| 2008 Press ArchiveThe ICR announced that the drug abiraterone could treat up to 80% of patients with aggressive and previously drug resistant prostate cancer. |
| 2007 Press ArchiveICR scientists identified two common genetic variants that could triple a person’s risk of getting bowel cancer. |
| 2006 Press ArchiveThe complex chain of molecular triggers involved in the development of malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, was published by the ICR. |
| 2005 Press ArchiveRachel Stevens took men’s health into her own hands with an Everyman advertisement about warning signs of testicular cancer. |
| 2004 Press ArchiveA gene crucial to the advancement and spread of bladder cancer was identified, providing a new target for researchers to develop drugs for. |
| 2003 Press ArchiveHRH The Princess Royal, Chancellor of The University of London, officially opened the ICR’s Brookes Lawley Building at the beginning of the year. |
| 2002 Press ArchiveICR scientists link smoking to at least 14 different types of cancer, as well as at least eight other serious medical conditions. |
| 2001 Press ArchiveScientists develop a pioneering new method for diagnosing breast cancer, helping doctors distinguish more accurately between benign and malignant tumours. |
| 2000 Press ArchiveThe ICR and The Royal Marsden develop a high-precision radiosurgery technique, allowing doctors to control a third of all brain tumours. |
| 1999 Press ArchiveScientists at the ICR develop a cancer chip which will revolutionise the way cancer genes are discovered. |
| 1998 Press ArchiveScientists began moving into the new extension of the Chester Beatty Laboratories in May, two years after construction begins. |
