Diagnosis, prevention and treatment

Multiple cancers
How is surgery used to treat cancer?

How exactly is surgery used to treat cancer? How much has it changed over the years and what will cancer surgery look like in the future? 

Multiple cancers
What is immunotherapy?

Find out what immunotherapy is, how it works and how discovery research is helping immunotherapy cure cancer.

General cancer research
Why is cancer so hard to cure?

There are many reasons why cancer is so difficult to cure, largely including the sheer complexity of the disease. But there is also reason to be optimistic for the future. 

Multiple cancers
All about the breakthrough cancer drug olaparib

Developed thanks to the support of charities like Worldwide Cancer Research, olaparib has so far been used to treat over 140,000 cancer patients worldwide.

General cancer research
How could sugar be used to boost cancer treatment?

What is the relationship between sugar and cancer treatment? A Worldwide Cancer Research scientist explains how sugar could be used to help enhance the effect of cancer treatments.