Research Highlights
Visit The Institute of Cancer Research's Research Highlight's page, and catch up on the latest advancements in the fight against cancer. In conjunction with the Royal Marsden Trust.
Shorter radiotherapy courses can benefit breast cancer patients - 19 March 2008
Scientists Find Bowel Cancer Genes that Triple Risk - 16 March 2008
Role of Aggressive Breast Cancer Gene Discovered - 10 March 2008
New Drug Target Identified for Lobular Breast Cancer - 10 March 2008
Important Insights Gained into Deadly Forms of Leaukaemia - 10 March 2008
Suicide Gene Therapy Kills Bowel Cancer Cells - 10 March 2008
Targeted Cancer Therapy - 10 March 2008
Providing the Best Treatment for Prostate Cancer - 10 March 2008
Improving Breast Cancer Survival Rates - 10 March 2008
Innovation Awards for Institute Spin-out Companies - 10 March 2008
Faster Chemo Technique Increases Survival in Children with Neuroblastoma - 26 February 2008
Brain Tumour Gene Link Found - 21 February 2008
Seven New Prostate Cancer Genetic Risk Factors Identified - 10 February 2008
UK Scientists Uncover Clue to Cancer Drug Resistance - 10 February 2008
Scientists Identify Protein’s Crucial Role in Resistance to Breast Cancer Treatment - 04 February 2008
Stem Cells which Cause Childhood Leukaemia Found - 16 January 2008
Improving radiotherapy for prostate cancer - 06 August 2007
Cracking the code of childhood cancer - 06 August 2007
Unravelling the molecular genetic traits of breast cancer - 06 August 2007
Rectal cancer treatment: a multidisciplinary approach - 06 August 2007
Prostate Cancer: An Unmet Medical Need - 06 August 2007
Imaging Research and Cancer Diagnosis - Colorectal Cancer - 06 August 2007
Harnessing viruses as cancer therapeutics - 06 August 2007
Important Insights Gained into Deadly Form of Leukaemia - 09 July 2007
Bowel Cancer Gene Located - 08 July 2007
Improving Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer - 19 May 2007
New target identified in the battle against breast cancer - 04 December 2006
New Prostate Cancer Screening Website Launched - 09 October 2006
Breast Cancer Risk Gene Discovered - 08 October 2006
New Anticancer Compounds Discovered - 31 August 2006
Scientists Unravel Breast Cancer Risk Gene Mystery - 10 July 2006
ICR Scientists Reveal Structure of HSP90 - 19 April 2006
The Institute of Cancer urges you to 'Breathe Easy' - 17 November 2005
Gene Increases Risk in Breast Cancer Families - 28 October 2005
Scientists Discover Scaramanga Gene's Bond with Breast Cancer - 31 August 2005
Mobile Phone Use and Risk of Cancer - 30 August 2005
Scientists Unravel Pathway in Skin Cancer Development - 29 August 2005
Covert Cancer Drugs ‘Fast Tracked’ To Tumours - 11 August 2005
New Advance in Prostate Cancer Management - 10 August 2005
Fertility Boost For Testicular Cancer Patients - 19 July 2005
Early Trials Of Cancer Drug Show Promise - 16 June 2005
Avoiding ‘Unnecessary’ Treatment for Prostate Cancer - 27 April 2005
Charting the Pathway Leading to Childhood Leukaemia - 22 April 2005
Possible Cancer Link of Newly Discovered Protein Interaction - 15 April 2005
Diesel Fume Cancer Risk - 01 April 2005
Scientists Shed Light on Tamoxifen Risks - 04 March 2005
