This week BBC Radio 4’s File on Four series ran a programme claiming that “Millions of pounds of charity donations and taxpayers’ money have been wasted on worthless cancer studies.” The gist of the programme was that scientists across the world had slipped up in how they studied the basic “nuts and bolts” of cancer – and that Cancer Research UK was somehow implicated in this error.
But are these allegations true?
Globally there is evidence that cell line contamination does happen – however this is not an issue that we have seen any evidence of from our researchers. We’d like to reassure our supporters that millions of pounds of Cancer Research UK funds have not been wasted.
Posted by Kat Arney 
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