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More breast cancer patients could benefit from promising new treatment, genetic study reveals
A greater number of breast cancers are genetically similar to rarer cases with faulty BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, according to research from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and The Institute of Cancer Research, London.
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Seize chance to close EU loophole in childhood cancer treatments, say cancer experts
Cancer treatments are not being trialled in children because of outdated European regulations which are in urgent need of reform, say cancer experts.
Our joint letter calling for reform of European regulations on clinical trials in children
Read the letter written in support of calls from The Institute of Cancer Research, London and its partner signatories to reform European regulations around trials of cancer treatments in children.
Protein ‘postcodes’ point to new targets for cancer treatment
Scientists have devised a new technique that establishes the ‘postcode’ for proteins within cancer cells, as a faster, more accurate way of identifying signals that are driving cancer growth.
ICR and Imperial College London launch the Cancer Research Centre of Excellence
The Institute of Cancer Research and Imperial College London have marked the start of a new joint partnership with the launch of the Cancer Research Centre of Excellence (CRCE) in London.
Good news as cancer patients will get access to more treatments after price drops
Pharmaceutical companies have lowered the prices of 14 key cancer medicines as part of a review by NICE of the old Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF).
Experimental drug could prevent cancer DNA repair to boost radiotherapy effects
Treating bladder and head-and-neck cancers with an experimental drug called CCT244747 makes radiotherapy more successful at killing them, scientists have discovered.
ICR partners in a new -180°C ‘cryo-EM’ machine
A new £3m grant from Wellcome to a consortium led by scientists at Imperial College London and The Institute of Cancer Research, London, will help to purchase a state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscopy machine.
Five stunning scientific images of our cancer research
Researchers at the ICR were challenged to capture in a single image their ground-breaking work making the discoveries that defeat cancer.
New molecular ‘building block’ to aid drug discovery
Scientists have discovered how to make a synthetic molecule that could be a key building block in the production of future cancer drugs.
ICR team is part of winning consortium for Cancer Research UK ‘Grand Challenge’
Scientists from The Institute of Cancer Research, London, are part of a consortium that has won one of the first wave of ‘Grand Challenge’ grants from Cancer Research UK.
Non-profit drug development could cut cost of cancer medicines
Universities should work with new forms of commercial partner to take their own cancer drugs to market and drive down the ‘spiralling’ cost of new medicines, leading experts propose.