London, UK: The NCRI has revealed the winners of its first Excellence Awards: Collaboration Award: Paediatric Adolescent Wildtype & SyndromicGastrointestinal…
NCRI’s CM-Path group highlight need for training and support for research in pathology
'In a new paper, published in the Journal of Clinical Pathology, NCRI’s Cellular and Molecular Pathology Group (CM-Path) report the…
Prof Mererid Evans appointed NCRI CTRad Deputy Chair
'We are pleased to announce that, following an open competitive recruitment process, Prof Mererid Evans has been appointed as NCRI…
Appointment of new NCRI Consumer Lead
'We are pleased to announce that Emma Kinloch has been appointed as NCRI Consumer Lead, effective from 1 April 2019.…
Collaboration at the heart of pan European Initiative to tackle cancer inequalities
'Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Leeds, as part of a pan-European partnership, have won the prestigious…
Doctors and nurses reluctant to recommend e-cigarettes to cancer patients
'Twenty-nine per cent of health professionals would not recommend e-cigarettes to cancer patients who already smoke, according to research presented…
Gut stem cells offer clues for preventing tumours in inherited bowel cancer
'Treating pre-cancerous stem cells at an early stage could be key to preventing bowel cancer in people born with a…
Analyses of genetic variants show the effect of sleep on breast cancer risk
'Women who are “larks”, functioning better at the beginning of the day than the end of the day, have a…
Gap in research means millions living with long-term consequences of cancer
'Millions of people are living with the long-term consequences of cancer and its treatment, but currently there is very little…
Men with prostate cancer are willing to accept lower survival odds to side effects
'Men who have been newly diagnosed with prostate cancer say they would trade some improvement in their odds of survival…
Patients with low risk thyroid cancer can receive lower doses of radiation treatment
'Thyroid cancer patients whose disease is at low risk of returning can be treated safely with a smaller amount of…
Melanoma death rates are rising in men but static or falling in women
'The rate of men dying from malignant melanoma has risen in populations around the world, while in some countries the…