Successful candidates will undertake a four-year research training programme under the guidance of a team of our world-class researchers. ICR-funded studentships are open to candidates of all ...
Image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) offers a transformative opportunity for adaptive cancer treatment by providing high-resolution soft tissue imaging during radiation delivery. However, patient and ...
With our Science Talk blog, we hope to lift the lid on the black box that is the ICR: to show you inside our labs, to introduce you to a few of the people here who make the discoveries, and to allow ...
A spit test, where a sample can be collected at home, is more accurate at identifying future risk of prostate cancer for some men than the current standard PSA blood test, a new study reports. Results ...
These days, in the era of personalised medicine, whenever researchers discover a new cancer drug they are expected to show exactly how it works and to prove that it is exerting its therapeutic effect ...
Scientists have created the most comprehensive map to date of the genetic mutations that fuel cancer – opening the door to extending precision treatments to thousands more patients and offering clues ...
Thousands of women with breast cancer could be spared unnecessary treatment, thanks to a simple test which can identify whether or not their cancer is likely to return – just two weeks after starting ...
Experts at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, have responded to the draft recommendation from the National Screening Committee (NSC) to implement a targeted prostate cancer screening programme ...
Twenty years ago today, the International Genome Sequencing Consortium published the first detailed analysis of the human genome. The paper appeared online in Nature on 15 February 2001, followed by a ...
The Institute of Cancer Research, London, strongly welcomes the decision by NICE to recommend the targeted breast cancer drug, capivasertib, in combination with fulvestrant, for treating the most ...
These findings have now been published in The Lancet. Cutting edge proton beam therapy is no better than intensity-modulated radiotherapy for treating people with head and neck cancer, according to ...
A new drug is having a dramatic effect on shrinking lung cancer tumours, according to new research. A trial testing the drug zongertinib as a first treatment for people with advanced lung cancer who ...