Cancer

Alfred was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2012. Earlier this month, Public Health England published a long-awaited report on how factors like age, ethnicity and sex are linked to a person’s risk of COVID-19. The report confirmed what many news headlines had already implied – that COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting Black, Asian and minority ethnic

Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is also called stage 0 breast cancer or pre-cancer. It means that malignant cancer cells have been found in the milk ducts but have not spread beyond them. It’s considered cancer and is something to take seriously, but the prognosis is typically good and it is treatable. In fact, because

We know that it has been harder for people to exercise over these last several weeks. Christina Lombardi, DPT PT has put together easy exercises to get you moving at home! For the past several Wednesdays we shared exercises with you. Each exercise included descriptive information and a video to demonstrate how to do it. This

Statins are commonly used to treat patients with high cholesterol, but a new study from the University of Notre Dame has just revealed that they might also be highly useful drugs for treating another condition—metastatic breast cancer. Researchers now believe that statins could interfere with the adaptation of breast cancer cells that allows them to

As the Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Penn, I have never felt prouder of our incredibly devoted staff and faculty. They have stepped up as a group from the very beginning of this global COVID crisis and forged new paths. Our collective expertise and comfort working as a team to deliver the

Today, we announced that because of COVID-19 and the devastating impact it’s had on our income, we could be forced to cut £150 million per year from our research funding.  Michelle Mitchell is our chief executive officer. As an organisation whose sole mission is to beat cancer – to ensure that fewer people are diagnosed and those that are can face the

Professor Anne Charlton fundraising for Cancer Research Campaign, one of the forerunners of Cancer Research UK. Professor Anne Charlton was a much-loved colleague who blazed a research trail in cancer education and smoking prevention in schools. Anne, who died in April aged 84 after contracting COVID-19, was a passionate advocate of the importance of public

Conversations about COVID-19 changing. While the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare services across the UK is likely to continue for many months to come, talk is shifting to how to restore healthcare services. But at a time when our health services are recovering from one major health crisis, we are in danger of creating another

Credit: John Marshall, Tumour Biology Lab & EM Unit With news about the coronavirus pandemic developing daily, we want to make sure everyone affected by cancer gets the information they need during this time.  We’re pulling together the latest government and NHS health updates from across the UK in a separate blog post, which we’re

We have had a lot of comments about our unemployment benefits and COVID-19 blog. Now, as the country is trying to re-open and learn to live with COVID, cancer survivors and patients are asking, should I go back to work? Do I have to go back to work? Can I still collect unemployment if I

The iKnife has been used to hunt for patterns that could reveals clues about metabolism and cancer. Credit: Jeroen Claus (Phospho Biomedical Animation) Imagine a line of dominoes. When one is lightly tapped and falls, the rest tumble.   The same is true of cancer. When a cell becomes cancerous, important cellular pathways are altered. And

With every action there is a reaction. Yet another Black American is killed in police custody, but this time it’s different. Protests break out across the US, in major cities and small towns. Many of them dominated by suburban White folk like myself. But the backlash against the protest is just winding up. Rodney Warner

A French infant named Jules is the first in the world to be born using a method called in vitro maturation (IVM) followed by vitrification. His mother is a breast cancer survivor who became infertile after chemotherapy treatment. In IVM, eggs are matured after they’ve been extracted from the mother, when they’re outside the body.

Noise cancelling headphones (via Sarvarkhuja Murodov on Unsplash) For the longest time, scientists have been trying to find ways to use blood to better understand how cancer progresses inside the body. As a tumour grows inside the body, it releases DNA into the bloodstream. And over the last decade, this circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) has

We know that it has been harder for people to exercise over these last several weeks. Christina Lombardi, DPT PT has put together easy exercises to get you moving at home! Each Wednesday for the next several weeks we will share these exercises with you. Each exercise includes descriptive information and a video to demonstrate

Everyone knows that when you’re planning a wedding, something will go wrong on or before the big day, no matter how hard you try to avoid it. But rarely is the unavoidable wedding-day disaster as catastrophic and life-changing as cancer. Holly Hollis and her fiancé, Mark Stars, certainly weren’t expecting anything quite this drastic. In

Our team will not be silent. For 26 years, our mission at Oncolink has been to support ALL individuals, caregivers and healthcare providers coping with cancer—from addressing cancer risk, through diagnosis, treatment and survivorship. Our content is available and accessible, without charge, to a wide variety of users. As frontline healthcare providers, we have seen

Michelle Mitchell is our chief executive officer. A few short months ago, our ambitious plans for 2020 were in full swing. More than 4,000 of our funded researchers were working together in labs and hospitals across the UK and our 600 shops were buzzing with activity at the heart of the high street. The build

Charlotte is helping young cancer patients during the coronavirus pandemic, after her own experience of cancer as a child. We caught up with people living with cancer across the country, to find out how the coronavirus pandemic has been affecting them and their families.  Katherine: “I had to undo the gown myself and that was

Credit: Imperial science imagery When the country went into lockdown in March, hospital trusts began to make difficult decisions as to which clinical trials they could safely keep open, and which had to close. One key consideration was how to protect trial participants, as many cancer medicines – including experimental therapies – can compromise the

An image of a woman undergoing radiotherapy treatment. With news about the coronavirus pandemic developing daily, we want to make sure everyone affected by cancer gets the information they need during this time.  We’re pulling together the latest government and NHS health updates from across the UK in a separate blog post, which we’re updating

Michelle Mitchell, chief executive of Cancer Research UK Like so many of us right now, I’ve been thinking hard about how to be a better ally, and how the charity can better represent and serve Black and other ethnic minority communities. We know that we can and will continue to improve. I want our supporters

We know that it has been harder for people to exercise over these last several weeks. Christina Lombardi, DPT PT has put together easy exercises to get you moving at home! Each Wednesday for the next several weeks we will share these exercises with you. Each exercise includes descriptive information and a video to demonstrate

Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green has developed a successful method of killing cancer cells by using nanotechnology and lasers. After the aunt who raised her died from cancer, Green was inspired to develop a better treatment option. Green is only the 76th African American woman to receive a PhD in physics from an American university, according to

In Latin, the word “patient” means “one who suffers,” or “I am suffering.” Even in the literal translation, there’s no beating around the bush when it comes to what it’s like to live with illness. The experience of being a patient often involves significant pain and feelings of vulnerability that isolate and destabilize one’s sense

When Kim Coulter noticed the very first sign that she might have breast cancer, she attempted to ignore it. It happened during the COVID-19 epidemic, while she and her husband were both juggling their three kids and their essential jobs at a local manufacturing company called SRC, working both from home and at the office.

Isabelle Thompson is volunteering at the Alderley Park Lighthouse Lab. COVID-19 testing is essential in the UK’s fight against coronavirus and to help get cancer services back on track. We’ve estimated that between 21,000 and 37,000 COVID-19 tests must be done each day to ensure there are COVID-protected safe spaces for cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Prostate cancer cell Credit: LRI EM Unit With news about the coronavirus pandemic developing daily, we want to make sure everyone affected by cancer gets the information they need during this time.  We’re pulling together the latest government and NHS health updates from across the UK in a separate blog post, which we’re updating regularly.