The future of breast cancer screening
Breast cancer screening is an important tool for early detection. But what does screening currently look like? And how could it be improved?
08 Mar 2023
What do we still need to learn about DCIS?
Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) is an early form of breast cancer. With DCIS, cancer cells are present in the breast duct, but they can’t spread to the surrounding breast tissue.
28 Feb 2023
Highlights from the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2022
We’re reporting on the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2022, the largest breast cancer conference in the world. Edd, our research communications officer, attended the symposium. He shares his highlights of days 1 to 4.
16 Feb 2023
Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Today we’re celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! So, we're shining a spotlight on 3 of our amazing researchers.
10 Feb 2023
How can we understand the impact of COVID-19 on cancer services?
We’re still trying to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer services. So, it’s important to build a detailed picture of how patients have been affected.
26 Jan 2023
Understanding the differences between breast cancer in men and women
Men can also get breast cancer. It’s rare, but around 370 are diagnosed with the disease every year in the UK. It’s important we the differences between breast cancer in men and women so we can find better ways to prevent and treat the disease.
19 Jan 2023
Could we create a vaccine treatment for triple negative breast cancer?
Around 15% of breast cancer are classed as triple negative. This form of breast cancer currently has limited targeted treatments available. So, we need to find new and effective ways to treat people diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer.
11 Jan 2023
The biological clock – could timing improve breast cancer treatment?
In these blogs, we explore some of the biggest topics in breast cancer research. One of those topics is how the body’s biological clock is involved in breast cancer.
07 Jan 2023
Researchers discover new way to improve breast cancer treatment
Scientists have discovered a new way to potentially improve the effectiveness of breast cancer treatment by targeting a variant of a common protein
05 Jan 2023
Our top research discoveries of 2022
To celebrate our research successes of the past year our research communications officer, Edd, picked out his favourite discoveries and explains why they are so important.
14 Dec 2022
Scientists discover new way to improve the effectiveness of immunotherapy
Researchers have uncovered the key to improving immunotherapy’s ability to stop breast cancer from spreading to the lungs.
06 Dec 2022
Researchers identify new weaknesses in cells that support cancer growth
Researchers have discovered new weaknesses in a special type of cell that supports cancer cells to grow and spread around the body.
29 Nov 2022
Scientists discover how some DCIS tumours can become invasive
Scientists, based at the Queen Mary University of London, have discovered a new mechanism that signals which Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) tumours may progress to invasive breast cancer. This might help avoid unnecessary treatment for some women with DCIS in the future.
21 Nov 2022
How Breast Cancer Now helped discover PARP inhibitors
PARP inhibitors like olaparib are an exciting new avenue of targeted treatment for breast cancer patients with changes to the BRCA genes. Let’s look at the journey of olaparib from first experiments in the lab until now.
07 Nov 2022
Researchers identify new weaknesses in triple negative breast cancer
Researchers have discovered weaknesses in some triple negative breast cancers that could lead to new ways to treat this form of the disease.
13 Oct 2022
Scientists find new targets to develop treatments for chemotherapy-resistant breast cancers
Researchers have identified a group of immune cells that could be targeted to develop new treatments for breast cancers that are resistant to chemotherapy.
26 Sept 2022
Researchers develop a new method to support women making decisions about breast reconstruction
Researchers looked at additional support that could help women discuss their goals and priorities for breast reconstruction surgery with their surgeon.
07 Sept 2022
Researchers find that an extra radiotherapy boost helps prevent an early form of breast cancer from returning
Researchers have found that an extra radiotherapy boost could reduce the chances of higher risk DCIS coming back in the same breast.
23 Aug 2022
How our Tissue Bank is shaping the future of breast cancer research
This year we’re celebrating 10 years of the Breast Cancer Now Tissue Bank. By collecting tissue samples from people affected by breast cancer and making them available to researchers, our Tissue Bank accelerates progress towards faster diagnosis and better treatments.
11 Aug 2022
We hope these tissues unlock some of the ‘secrets’ behind breast cancer
Professor Valerie Speirs is co-principal investigator of the Breast Cancer Now Tissue Bank. Here Valerie and Edward Jones, our research communications officer, discuss how the Bank has grown over the past 10 years to become a phenomenal medical resource.
04 Aug 2022