Chemotherapy

Guest author, Dr Rosanna Jackson, outlines what scientists are doing to make treatment for one type of childhood leukaemia kinder.

Our researchers are working on a new way to improve chemotherapy treatment for aggressive brain tumours, using the precious metal palladium.

Brain tumour research is one of our top priorities. Here, Sue shares her experience of living with an incurable brain tumour.

Brain tumour research is one of our top priorities. Here, Parminder takes us through her treatment journey after she was diagnosed with an astrocytoma.

A world-first data report could help us understand whether cancer patients are getting the most appropriate treatments for them.

A year on from a big data report and some hospitals have changed how they discuss some aspects of treatment, including palliative care.

We go back to the 1950s to find out how one of our scientists helped transform the outlook for women with a rare cancer called choriocarcinoma.

We’re in Liverpool for the annual National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference, sharing updates from the most exciting research on show.

For this edition of Science Snaps we peer inside some bones, investigating how leukaemia cells get around and dodge treatment.

Our chief clinician offers his thoughts on new data looking at one aspect of the effects of certain cancer treatments across the NHS in England.