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Suffocating tumours: can we stop cancer from growing in low oxygen environments?
Cancer type
Lung cancer
Research goal
How cancer works
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Mighty microbes: can bacteria in our lungs make cancer treatment more effective?
Cancer type
Lung cancer
Research goal
How cancer works
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Spot the difference: revealing differences between leukaemia cells and healthy cells
Cancer type
Leukaemia
Research goal
How cancer works
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Developing a brand-new treatment for advanced prostate cancer
Cancer type
Prostate cancer
Research goal
How cancer works
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Seeking a possible new target for lymphoma treatment
Cancer type
Lymphoma
Research goal
New targeted treatments
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Chemotherapy and chromosomes: understanding the connection
Cancer type
General cancer research
Research goal
How cancer works
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Detecting new targets to treat bowel cancer
Cancer type
Bowel cancer
Research goal
New targeted treatments
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Understanding how bone marrow ’niches’ can help leukaemia cells to grow
Cancer type
Leukaemia
Research goal
How cancer works
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Boosting the ability of our immune system to better detect and more effectively destroy cancer
Cancer type
Melanoma
Prostate cancer
Research goal
New targeted treatments
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Using fruit flies to understand how brain cancer can hijack our blood vessels
Cancer type
Brain cancer
Research goal
How cancer works
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Powering down: Targeting the cancer cell batteries to stop cancer
Cancer type
General cancer research
Research goal
How cancer works
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Preventing glioblastoma tumours from importing new ‘batteries’ from brain cells
Cancer type
Brain cancer
Research goal
How cancer works
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Atchoo! Can understanding allergic reactions lead to new cancer treatments?
Cancer type
Melanoma
Research goal
Improving current treatments
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Uncovering the connection between liver disease and liver cancer
Cancer type
Liver cancer
Research goal
How cancer develops
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Breaking point: causes and consequences of ‘centromere breakage’ in cancer development
Cancer type
General cancer research
Research goal
How cancer works
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Treating cancer with a heart beat
Cancer type
General cancer research
Heart cancer
Research goal
How cancer works
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Targeting cancer’s weak spot – a new vulnerability for leukaemia
Cancer type
Leukaemia
Research goal
New targeted treatments
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Could a novel molecular tool help to improve the effectiveness of radiotherapy?
Cancer type
General cancer research
Research goal
New targeted treatments
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Could testosterone be used to treat a very rare cancer?
Cancer type
General cancer research
Research goal
How cancer works
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Flipping the molecular master switches that drive cancer
Cancer type
General cancer research
Research goal
How cancer works
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The role of the self-eating receptor p62 in stopping cancer spreading
Cancer type
General cancer research
Research goal
New targeted treatments
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Maximising the effectiveness of a targeted therapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Cancer type
Lymphoma
Research goal
New targeted treatments
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Discovering if mesothelioma cells compete or cooperate
Cancer type
Lung cancer
Research goal
How cancer works
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Pursuing new clues about the cause of a rare childhood blood cancer
Cancer type
Blood cancer
Childhood cancer
Research goal
New targeted treatments
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Stopping cancer coming back by better understanding how cancer stem cells behave
Cancer type
General cancer research
Research goal
How cancer works
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Shining a light on the link between obesity and breast cancer’s ability to spread
Cancer type
Breast cancer
Research goal
How cancer works
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Developing natural nanoparticle “smart bombs” to target hard-to-treat tumours
Cancer type
General cancer research
Breast cancer
Research goal
Improving current treatments
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Improving the effectiveness of a breast cancer treatment for more patients
Cancer type
Breast cancer
Research goal
Improving current treatments
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Tackling tough-to-treat brain cancers with new targeted treatments
Cancer type
Brain cancer
Research goal
New targeted treatments
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Revealing the role of natural killer cells in cancer immunity
Cancer type
Leukaemia
Research goal
Improving current treatments
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