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With our Science Talk blog, we hope to lift the lid on the black box that is the ICR: to show you inside our labs, to introduce you to a few of the people here who make the discoveries, and to allow them to tell some of the stories behind the science. We try to put our discoveries in a wider scientific context, and give an idea of how our science is actually done. We also give you the view from the ICR of important developments in the wider world of cancer research.

Small numbers, big impact: the unique challenges of studying rare cancers

Small numbers, big impact: the unique challenges of studying rare cancers

New results from an ICR-led clinical trial are set to change the outlook for patients with a rare form of kidney cancer. Sarah Wells takes a look at some of the main challenges in studying rare cancers, and how the ICR’s researchers are going about making discoveries to improve the outlook for the one in five cancer patients with a rare cancer.

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