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ICR competes in University Challenge for the first time

17/08/15

Four students from The Institute of Cancer Research, London, will be hoping to answer their ‘Starter for 10’, as they spearhead the organisation’s first ever appearance on the BBC quiz programme University Challenge.
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Professor Chris Marshall, 1949–2015

11/08/15

Professor Chris Marshall, who has very sadly died aged 66, was an inspirational scientist who will leave a lasting legacy of game-changing discoveries in cancer research and generous support for his younger colleagues.
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ICR mourns loss of Research Director Professor Chris Marshall

10/08/15

It is with great sadness that we confirm that Professor Chris Marshall, inspirational scientist and esteemed colleague, friend and mentor, has died.
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Professor Paul Workman comments on further draft guidance for olaparib

05/08/15

Professor Paul Workman, Cheif Executive of the ICR has commented on today’s decision on olaparib for women with BRCA mutated ovarian cancer in further draft guidance from NICE.
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Creative types

30/07/15

In the fifth and final essay short-listed for the ICR's Mel Greaves Science Writing Prize 2015, Dr Chris Tape discovers what it's like to communicate science to millions of people.
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Lucy’s Gratitude Walk to raise funds for the ICR

30/07/15

Lucy O'Donnell, a mother of three teenagers, and her friend Lucinda will walk the South Downs Way in support of the ICR.
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Professor Kevin Harrington to star in BBC2’s Trust me, I’m a Doctor

29/07/15

The ICR’s Professor Kevin Harrington is to feature in the BBC2 programme Trust Me, I’m a Doctor on Wednesday 29 July.
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Drugs for worms and river blindness could treat breast cancer

27/07/15

Cheap drugs which treat parasitic worms and conditions such as river blindness could be used for women with a type of breast cancer that often fails to respond to standard therapies.
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Socrates and apoptosis

24/07/15

In the fourth of five articles short-listed for the ICR's Mel Greaves Science Writing Prize 2015, Dr Daniel Nava Rodrigues offers similarities between our bodies and city-states – how are the cells in our bodies policed?
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Oestrogen-suppressing drugs substantially reduce breast cancer deaths

23/07/15

A class of hormonal drugs – already used in the clinic – reduce the risk of death in postmenopausal women with the most common type of breast cancer.
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New ‘chemotherapy booster’ could treat lung and pancreatic cancer

23/07/15

A new drug that blocks cancer’s escape route from chemotherapy could be used to treat deadly lung and pancreatic cancers, new research reports.
Breast cancer cells (green) invading through a layer of fibroblasts (red). (Luke Henry / the ICR, 2009)
Resistance to cancer drug found to occur naturally in the breast

22/07/15

Study finds the genetic mutations which drive resistance to some targeted cancer drugs are present in breast cancer cells right from the beginning of treatment.