Press Releases

Press Releases from the NCRI Cancer Conference

Below is a list of the press releases from the 2007 NCRI Cancer Conference.

	8/10/2009	Ten minute talk boosts breast cancer awareness six fold
		NCRI (View website)
	7/10/2009	Cardiff scientists take on leukaemia with drugs personalised to individual patients
		NCRI (View website)
	7/10/2009	Knowledge boosts pain killing drugs
		NCRI (View website)
	7/10/2009	Experimental drug may work in many cancers
		NCRI (View website)
	7/10/2009	Polite Britons risk late cancer diagnosis
		NCRI (View website)
	7/10/2009	Manchester scientists take on cancer with pioneering radiotherapy treatment
		NCRI (View website)
	6/10/2009	Discovery offers hope for new cancer treatments
		NCRI (View website)
	6/10/2009	Therapy combats breast cancer patients’ menopause symptoms
		NCRI (View website)
	6/10/2009	Landmark breast cancer trial investigates new technique to predict effectiveness of treatment
		NCRI (View website)
	6/10/2009	New targeted radiotherapy treatment offers hope to cancer patients
		NCRI (View website)
	5/10/2009	DNA test could be key to targetting treatments for head and neck cancer
		NCRI (View website)
	5/10/2009	Marie Curie Cancer Care and Cancer Research UK announce new research collaboration
		NCRI (View website)
	5/10/2009	Drug targets cell ‘velcro’ to stop spreading of cancer
		NCRI (View website)
	5/10/2009	Keyhole surgery for bowel cancer on the up, but not yet available to all
		NCRI (View website)
	5/10/2009	A new radiotherapy technique could revolutionise cancer treatment
		NCRI (View website)
	5/10/2009	Cancer Research UK and Astrazeneca to accelerate biomarker research
		NCRI (View website)
	5/10/2009	Wandering breast cancer cells can stay dormant for decades
		NCRI (View website)
	4/10/2009	Urgent action needed to reverse downward trend in pathology research
		NCRI (View website)
	3/10/2009	New clinical study shows nutrition after cancer surgery improves patient recovery time and could save the NHS millions
		NCRI (View website)
	28/9/2009	Dying alone - is it all that bad?
		NCRI (View website)
	7/10/2008	Therapy reduces death from anal cancer by a third

	7/10/2008	NHS tobacco bill tops £2.7 billion a year

	7/10/2008	Chance of surviving gut cancers up 40 per cent in two decades

	7/10/2008	Lung cancer rates 50 per cent higher in the west of Scotland

	6/10/2008	New Chemotheraphy ’cures’ early testicular cancer

	6/10/2008	Cancer can have a significant financial impact

	5/10/2008	NCRI sees record investment in cancer research

	4/10/2008	£50 million boost for UK cancer imaging

	2/10/2007	Early stage drug shows promise against cancer cells from young patients
		Paterson Institute for Cancer Research (View website)
	1/10/2007	Second hand smoke exposure slashed after three months of smokefree england

	30/9/2007	Lifestyle changes could prevent one in ten cases of breast cancer by 2024
		Cancer Research UK (View website)
	30/9/2007	Improved breast cancer awareness in older women could save lives
		Cancer Research UK (View website)
	30/9/2007	Patients from Birmingham now able to donate samples to national cancer tissue bank
		OnCore UK (View website)