Science Talk

To celebrate Darwin Day, The Institute of Cancer Research invited world-leading expert on the biology of ageing, Professor Dame Linda Partridge, to talk about how ageing stems from evolutionary processes, and what it means for diseases like cancer.

We’ve learned a lot about cancer in the last decade, with survival rates better now than ever before. Our Policy Adviser, Roya Ziaie, takes a look at what might be in store over the next ten years in an ever-changing field.

New treatments and an ageing population are giving rise to a new group of patients who have cancers which are treatable but not curable. Joanne Duffy considers the research and patient perspectives on this growing issue, which were discussed at the 2019 NCRI Cancer Conference.