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ASCO 2019: ICR-discovered drug shows promise in phase I clinical trial
A precision medicine targeting a key protein which helps cancer cells to tolerate DNA damage has shown promising results in two clinical trials.
Scientists discover ‘switch’ that helps breast cancer spread around the body
Researchers have identified a genetic ‘switch’ in breast cancer cells that helps them spread around the body.
Night shifts do not increase breast cancer risk, major UK analysis suggests
Working night shifts is not linked to an increased risk of breast cancer, a major prospective UK analysis has found.
When it comes to cancer, how can DNA become its own enemy?
Dr Gideon Coster is one of the newest Team Leaders at the ICR. Here we take a look at his research, aiming to understand how DNA can become its own enemy.
Opera stars’ encore funds life-saving cancer research
Four of the UK’s leading opera singers have performed an exclusive recital in support of the ICR.
New ‘barcode’ test divides bowel cancer into five diseases
A new test can genetically ‘barcode’ bowel cancer and separate it into five different diseases that could each receive tailored treatment, a new study reports.
How the ICR’s pioneering drug research is changing lives
The ICR has discovered more new cancer drugs than any other academic institution globally, and led the underpinning science for many more cancer treatments. We have helped lead clinical trials of these drugs and many others – taking them to cancer patients as quickly as possible.
Revolutionary new Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery aims to deliver step change in cancer treatment
The world’s first ‘Darwinian’ drug discovery programme specially designed to tackle cancer’s lethal ability to evolve resistance to treatment is to be launched in a state-of-the-art new building in London.
New radiotherapy system that moves patients in sync with x-ray beam can deliver accurate treatment for brain cancer
A new way to deliver radiotherapy that rotates patients in sync with the treatment beam could treat patients with brain cancer as accurately and quickly as the most advanced radiotherapy available, scientists at the ICR show.
New treatment could become first ever targeted therapy designed for ‘untreatable’ childhood brain cancer
A new type of drug that targets a genetic weakness in an untreatable childhood brain cancer could become the first ever treatment designed to target the disease. The prototype treatment could also offer hope for patients with the rare and devastating ‘stone man syndrome’ – in which muscles and ligaments turn to bone.
Gene mutation discovery linked to very poor survival in prostate cancer patients
Scientists have identified a gene mutation in the tumours of men with prostate cancer that is linked to very poor survival – and which could be used to pick out patients for more intensive treatment.
ICR is most successful UK university for invention income for sixth consecutive year
The Institute of Cancer Research, London has once again earned the most invention income per member of research staff of any UK higher education institution for the past academic year.
