Cancer treatment is often effective at first, but patients’ tumours sometimes stop responding even to the most advanced therapies. This is because cancers adapt and evolve over time, and learn how to resist treatment.

That’s why we’re working hard to gather and use knowledge of cancer’s enormous genetic complexity and diversity, so that we can develop new ways to anticipate and block it’s every move.

Our research to combat drug resistance is already improving cancer patients’ lives.

Using mathematical models we can predict how a tumour might respond even before starting treatment - in the same way that forecasters predict the weather.

We have developed viral immunotherapy drugs that harness the body’s immune system to kill cancer cells, which often survive other types of treatment. These smarter, kinder treatments have fewer side-effects than traditional chemotherapies.

Our pioneering ‘liquid biopsies’ detect tiny amounts of cancer DNA in the blood, detecting much earlier than can be picked up on a scan when treatments have stopped working. Helping doctors stay one-step-ahead of cancer as it evolves.

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These are just some of the ways that our research is helping to outsmart cancer as it adapts and evolves during treatment.

We have made progress, but we do need to do much more.

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