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Join us at Cambridge Festival and get hands-on with cancer research
Join us at Cambridge Festival on Saturday 22 March 2025 from 11am – 4pm for the Big Biomedical Campus day at the Cambridge Academy for Science and Technology (CAST), to learn more about our plans to build Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital.

Staff collaborate for World Cancer Day
Third sector, research and NHS staff came together for World Cancer Day last week, to learn more about services and innovations across cancer care.

Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital 'prioritised' in push for UK economic growth
A statement from Baroness Sally Morgan, CUH Chair and Roland Sinker, CEO: "We are delighted the Chancellor announced that delivering Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital remains a top priority for the UK Government’s plans to unlock the potential of the Oxford-Cambridge growth corridor, and to kick-start the UK’s economy.

Patient who overcame brain tumour to play key role in ‘super-survivor’ cancer study
A woman from Cambridge who is living life to the full, five years after being diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour, is hoping to take part in a trial aimed at unlocking the secrets of why some cancer patients survive longer than others.

CUH Chair and University Vice Chancellor welcome Government decision on new cancer hospital
Chair of Cambridge University Hospitals, Baroness Sally Morgan, and Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Deborah Prentice have welcomed the Government’s announcement that Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital will be included in Wave 1 of the New Hospital Programme.

Landmark 'pill-on-a-thread' cancer screening trial welcomes first participants
A pivotal clinical trial of a “pill-on-a-thread” test, which will decide if it becomes a new screening programme for oesophageal cancer, has welcomed its first participants.

Researchers’ breakthrough in fight against testicular cancer
Researchers have made an important step forward in the fight against testicular cancer - one of the most common cancers in young men with rates rising globally.

World-first trial launches to revolutionise the treatment of brain cancer
A pioneering research study that's open at Addenbrooke's will trial multiple new treatments for people in the UK living with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

BBC Look East Cancer Special
BBC Look East broadcast a special programme live from Addenbrooke’s last night, celebrating the latest innovations in cancer care and research at CUH, and looked ahead to our new East of England cancer hospital, Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital (CCRH).

Oncologist Raj becomes UK’s first clinical Professor of AI in radiotherapy
Cambridge University Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) oncologist, Raj Jena, has been appointed the UK’s first clinical Professor of AI in radiotherapy.

Patients at the forefront of BBC Look East’s special programme dedicated to cancer innovation
Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital will be part of BBC Look East's special live programme from Addenbrooke's this evening.

More patients in the East to benefit from personalised breast cancer treatment
A ground-breaking breast cancer programme pioneered at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, which decodes the genetic sequence of a patient’s cancer is to expand in the East.

New lab to open to make cutting-edge CAR-T cells in Cambridge
A new state-of-the-art laboratory is set to open at Addenbrooke’s Hospital that will deliver ‘home-grown’ CAR-T cells to help improve treatment for blood cancers.

Patients welcome £173m funding announcement to study cancer
As Cambridge scientists at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute receive a £173m investment to help study cancer, Fiona Carey, Co-Chair of the Patient Advisory Group for Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital, welcomes the announcement and says patients must be at the centre of cancer research.

Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital continues to make progress
On Friday 20th September 2024, the Government published the terms of reference for the New Hospital Programme (NHP) review. As the Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital project does not yet have full business case approval, we will be included in the national review, which aims to put the NHP on a deliverable timetable.

New state-of-the-art radiotherapy equipment benefiting patients in the East
Cancer patients are benefiting from a new type of radiotherapy which reduces treatment time whilst increasing accuracy and patient comfort.

Cambridge Dragon Boat Festival raised £35K for Cancer Hospital
The Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital (CCRH) project team and patients took to the waters at this year's 2024 Cambridge Dragon Boat Festival, which raised £35k for the new East of England cancer hospital.

How patients are making a difference
Fiona Carey, Co-Chair of the CCRH Patient Advisory Group (PAG), shares the subjects current and former cancer patients have covered in recent meetings, helping to design and build Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital.

Campaign highlights how new Cancer Hospital is changing the story of cancer
Why are researchers studying the very earliest stages of cancer? How will artificial intelligence change how we understand and treat cancer? Which chance discovery in a Cambridge lab led to a revolutionary new cancer drug? And how will the new Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital (CCRH) change the story of cancer?

Cancer is the public's biggest health concern, poll reveals
Two-thirds of the public say they are very or somewhat worried about being told they have cancer– higher than for any other medical condition, including dementia and having a heart attack – according to polling released today.