Scientists make ‘long-range weather forecasts’ of bowel cancer’s drug resistance 20 May 2021 Scientists can use genetic ‘weather forecasting’ to predict how long it will take for bowel cancer to evolve resistance to a drug before a patient has even started treatment, a new study has shown. Find out more Show/Hide
NCRI 2020: New bowel cancer model uncovering how it avoids immunotherapy drug 03 Nov 2020 Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, have developed a complex model system that mimics the most common form of bowel cancer and is showing how it ‘hides’ from immunotherapy. Find out more Show/Hide
Cancers engaged in evolutionary arms race with immune system 16 Jan 2020 Aggressive, highly mutated cancers evolve escape routes in response to immune attacks in an ‘evolutionary arms race’ between cancer and the immune system, a new study reports. Find out more Show/Hide