Latest ICR news
New study explores the use of powerful electron beams to treat cancer
Scientists have explored how a new high-powered laboratory accelerator could one day be used to treat cancer, offering new insights into an emerging form of radiotherapy known as FLASH.
Cancer trials under the microscope: Study finds barriers to inclusion persist in the UK
A new UK-based study is shedding light on a quiet but consequential problem in cancer research: whether some people have less opportunity than others to participate in clinical trials.
Immunotherapy boost can spare more bladder cancer patients major surgery
An immunotherapy helps bladder cancer patients remain cancer free and enables them to avoid surgery, a phase II trial has found.
Immunotherapy injection shrinks tumours in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck cancer
A targeted cancer treatment given via a simple injection under the skin shrank tumours in more than one third of patients with recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck cancer whose disease has stopped responding to standard treatments, according to research led by scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London