Changing the shape of breast cancer cells could make the disease more sensitive to treatments – even driving the body’s own inflammatory response against it.
Professor Ros Eeles describes that suggest healthy looking prostate cancer cells could actually be hiding cancer-causing mutations.
Professor Johann de Bono spoke on BBC Panorama about developing new cancer treatments that target cancer cells with fewer side effects than those currently available.
Dr Udai Banerji spoke on BBC Panorama about understanding more about cancer evolution in order to predict the next step cancer is going to take.
Professor Gail ter Haar talks about focusing high-frequency sound waves onto the surface of bone where cancer has spread to burn away the source of pain.
Dr Jonathan Gear, of the joint Department of Physics at the ICR and the Royal Marsden, talks about his PhD work to calculate radiation doses more accurately.
A brand new family of cancer drugs designed to block several key cancer-causing proteins at once could potentially treat incurable skin cancers.
Professor Mel Greaves FRS talks to us about why The Institute of Cancer Research is launching The Centre for Evolution and Cancer.