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DNA Helps Identify Genes that Drive Cancer
Clinical Candidate Selected by AstraZeneca

Drug Can Curb Ewing’s Sarcoma Growth
An early study of the drug figitumumab has found that in some patients it can curb the growth of Ewing’s sarcoma - a cancer which affects mainly teenage boys. The study was led by Dr Johann de Bono, from The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden Hospital, and funded by Pfizer, who developed the drug.
Broken Genomes Behind Breast Cancers
Farewell to Jonathan Kipling
Scientists Hear Cell Conversation for First Time
Student’s Award for Study into Cancer Drug Target
Tissue Stiffness is Key to Aggressive Cancers
Innovative National Clinical Trial Network Launched
Telomere Targeting Agents Licenced to Pharminox
Scientists Solve 100-year Cancer Puzzle
ICR and Marsden Honoured with Oncology Award
