The ICR has offered heartfelt condolences to Dame Deborah James' family after the campaigner and podcaster very sadly died - Deborah had been living with bowel cancer for six years.

A new type of immunotherapy making use of the immune system’s ‘natural killer cells’ could offer potential against a range of cancers that can evade current treatments, early results from a phase I trial suggest.

Scientists have, for the first time, recreated an assembly of proteins known as the β-catenin destruction complex in the test tube. This is a long-awaited step in cancer research, as mutations in this destruction complex are found in a large percentage of bowel and other cancers.