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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.

28 Nov 2024, noon
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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.

7 Nov 2024, 3:27 p.m. From: CUH
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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.

28 Oct 2024, 4:05 p.m.
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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).

17 Oct 2024, 12:37 p.m.
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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.

17 Oct 2024, 10:25 a.m. From: CUH
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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.

16 Oct 2024, 10 a.m.
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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.

16 Oct 2024, 9 a.m. From: CUH
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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.

16 Oct 2024, 8 a.m. From: CUH
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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.

15 Oct 2024, 11:23 a.m.
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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.

26 Sep 2024, 2:15 p.m. From: CUH
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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.

17 Sep 2024, 9:30 a.m. From: CUH
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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.

13 Sep 2024, 12:07 p.m.
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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.

25 Jul 2024, 10:22 a.m.
Professor Jean Abraham, who co-leads the Precision Breast Cancer Institute, which will move into 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?

16 Jul 2024, 3:58 p.m.
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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.

15 Jul 2024, 4:38 p.m.
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Bedfordshire dad now cancer free, after stage 4 cancer diagnosis

A Bedfordshire dad, who was diagnosed with stage 4 skin cancer which spread to his major organs, is now living with 'no evidence of cancer' in his body, after pioneering treatment at Addenbrooke's Hospital.

12 Jul 2024, 12:18 p.m.
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Using AI to detect stomach cancer

An Addenbrooke’s consultant who uses advanced techniques to detect cancer earlier, and prevent life-changing surgery later, has won a grant to boost his work.

20 May 2024, 12:53 p.m.
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Rebecca Fitzgerald elected to the Royal Society

Congratulations to Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Director of the Early Cancer Institute at the University of Cambridge and Honorary Consultant at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, who has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of sciences.

16 May 2024, 1:24 p.m.
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Planning permission granted for Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital

We welcome today’s planning committee decision, with councillors recommending approval to build Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

17 Apr 2024, 12:02 p.m. From: CUH
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£9.2m boost for next generation of Cambridge cancer experts

Cambridge is set to benefit from £9.2m funding to train the next generation of doctors and scientists, to bring new and better cancer treatments to patients faster.

9 Apr 2024, 10:25 a.m.