December 9, 2008
Tobacco is the single biggest cause of cancer in the world and accounts for over one in four cancer deaths. Every day, 450 children in the UK take up smoking and many of them will go on to become addicted.
That’s why Cancer Research UK works so hard to tackle smoking, especially in young people.
Alan Johnson MP, the Health Secretary, announced today that the Government will bring in new legislation on point-of-sale displays and vending machines covering England and Wales, but we’re disappointed that they haven’t gone further.
Earlier this year, we launched our Out of Sight, Out of Mind campaign to protect children and young people from tobacco marketing.
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Posted by Jon Spiers
December 8, 2008
Doctors use many different drugs to treat cancer, and researchers around the world are working hard to develop new ones. But what about designing drugs that actually prevent the disease?
One of our promising young researchers is aiming to do just that. We’ve just awarded a prestigious fellowship to Dr Geoff Wells at the London School of Pharmacy so he can carry out research into drugs that could protect cells from turning cancerous – an approach known as chemoprevention.
Such drugs could be used to prevent cancer in people who are known to have an increased risk of developing cancer – such as someone who has inherited a faulty gene from their parents that raises their risk of cancer.
So developing chemopreventative drugs could save lives. And Dr Wells has formulated an exciting plan for going about it.
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Posted by Kat Arney
December 3, 2008
As an organisation dedicated to beating cancer, we have a deep-rooted interest in any new research developments that could lead to new, more effective treatments for the disease.
So when we received an enquiry from a supporter about an article entitled “Cancer cured for good” by Bill Sardi and Timothy Hubbell* we were intrigued. The article talks about research by Nobuto Yamamoto in the US, looking at a protein called Gc-MAF (aka GcMAF). His published studies appear to show that injections of very small amounts of Gc-MAF can “cure” people with breast, bowel and prostate cancer.
According to the article, “It works 100% of the time to eradicate cancer completely, and cancer does not recur even years later.” Could this be the so-called ‘cure for cancer’ that we’ve been searching for all these years?
Sadly – as with so many things in life – if it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Let’s explore a bit further.
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Posted by Kat Arney
December 2, 2008
In this month’s podcast we hear the story of Little Star Poppy Guilder, who was first diagnosed with cancer when she was just fourteen months old.
Poppy’s mum Lisa talks frankly about the family’s experience, from “the day it felt their world had stopped” to Poppy’s courage in coping with chemotherapy and surgery.
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Posted by Kat Arney
There’s an unimaginable amount of information about cancer on the internet. Much of it is scientifically accurate and reliable, such as our own 
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