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The Institute of Cancer Research is making the discoveries that defeat cancer. We're a top UK academic research centre, a postgrad college, and a charity.
London, UK
Joined December 2011
BREAKING NEWS: A major new analysis reveals for the first time the likely cause of most cases of #childhoodleukaemia and that the disease may be preventable
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We’re deeply saddened by the death of Laura Nuttall, our hearts go out to her family. Laura and her family worked tirelessly to raise awareness of #Glioblastoma and campaign for #BrainCancerResearch. Her incredible positivity and determination will continue to inspire us❤️
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Two years on from her death, we remember Dame Deborah James. We're so grateful to Deborah for her tireless work in supporting #CancerResearch. Her @BowelbabeF is helping Professor @trevoragraham to understand how bowel cancer cells change as they spread around the body.
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Thank you @bowelbabe and everyone who's donated to @BowelbabeF, which has already raised more than £1 million. We're so grateful for any future support that will, with our partners @CR_UK and @royalmarsdenNHS, fund our research into new cancer treatments.
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“#Immunotherapy is keeping me alive. I’m full of confidence and optimism, enjoying life with my wife and daughter.''🙏💖. Read about @John_Dabell's remarkable experience with immunotherapy to treat #HeadAndNeckCancer. Please support #ICRImmunotherapy work.
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📰BREAKING: Researchers uncover how to target dormant ‘sleeping’ #BreastCancer cells and prevent relapse. Find out more 👇.
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And they're already in #Barrow!. Well done to the amazing #DaveDay riders led by Si King and Woody! 🏍️👏. So many people lining the streets to support this incredible ride out in honour of Dave Myers from the #HairyBikers ♥️. Please donate 👇 .
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This research was published today in @NatureRevCancer: . A causal mechanism for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
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Congratulations to the ICR's Professor Sir Mel Greaves, who was knighted by Prince William in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace last week in recognition of his services to children's leukaemia research. #ChildhoodCancer #ChildhoodLeukaemia
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We're excited to be at the Ace Café this morning where thousands of bikers will be setting off for Barrow-in-Furness for the #DaveDay celebrations in honour of Dave Myers from the @HairyBikers! 🏍️. It's such an honour to be one of the charities benefiting from today. ♥️
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Fantastic that His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge visited the Man Van today. This mobile health service, led by @Prof_Nick_James, is a joint initiative between the ICR, @royalmarsdenNHS, and @RMPartnersNHS, and aims to boost early diagnosis of #ProstateCancer.
The @RoyalMarsdenNHS’s life saving treatment and research is improving cancer outcomes for people across the country. With the use of robotic-guided procedures, they’re delivering faster, more accurate and therefore more effective treatment.
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BREAKING: Professor Mel Greaves has been knighted in the New Year Honours List for his pioneering and hugely influential research into #ChildhoodLeukaemia: #NewYearsHonours 🏅
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📢 We’re delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Kristian Helin as our next Chief Executive. @helin_kristian is a world-leading cancer researcher with exceptional leadership experience in three different countries. ➡️(1/4)
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🎉 We were delighted to welcome His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales at the @BreastCancerNow Toby Robins Research Centre at the ICR today! . HRH opened the centre in 1999 as the UK's first #BreastCancer research centre✨Read more 👇. @ClarenceHouse
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Prof @rahman_nazneen with @AnastaciaMusic and @BBCNaga at @ICR_London research labs. Watch on @BBCBreakfast this morning #ALightOnCancer
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We were proud to award honorary degrees to Dame Deborah James (@bowelbabe), Lauren Mahon (@iAmLaurenMahon) and Steve Bland (@blandsteve), presenters of the #YouMeBigC podcast, at our #ICRAwards2022 yesterday in recognition of their outstanding work to raise awareness of #Cancer.
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We are proud to award the titles of Professor and Reader to 11 researchers from across the ICR and @royalmarsdennhs!. Titles were awarded for achievements in scientific and research careers, academic excellence, teaching and learning, service, and leadership 🎉
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We'd like to say a warm welcome to our new Chief Executive, Professor Kristian Helin (@helin_kristian)!. Professor Helin joins us from @sloan_kettering - he is a world-leading cancer researcher with exceptional leadership experience in three different countries.
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🎉 Many congratulations to Professor @AndreaSottoriva on taking over as Director of the Centre for Evolution and Cancer. At the Centre, scientists are using Darwin's principle of natural selection to better understand cancer. Find out more:
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Congratulations to the ICR's Chris Bakal (@BakalLabICR), @AndreaSottoriva, Alessandro Vannini (@VanniniLab) and Nicola Valeri, and The @royalmarsdenNHS's Chris Parker and Sanjay Popat (@DrSanjayPopat), who have all gained the title of Professor 👏👨🔬🎉
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BREAKING NEWS: Delays to cancer surgery and other treatment caused by the #COVID19 crisis could result in thousands of additional deaths linked to the pandemic in England, a major new study reports.
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Beautiful words from Si King from the @HairyBikers - talking about Dave and what this special #DaveDay event is all about. The riders are on their way to Barrow-in-Furness and almost £30,000 has already been raised for us and Childline 👇. #BBCBreakfast.
Thousands of motorcyclists are riding from London to Cumbria, to celebrate the life of Hairy Biker Dave Myers who died from cancer. His friend Si King told #BBCBreakfast the event is a 'celebration of his life' .
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Ahead of #WorldCancerDay, we unveiled a plaque at our Chelsea and Sutton laboratories to commemorate the team of scientists who made the landmark discovery of the #BRCA2 #Cancer gene in 1995 🎉🧵👇 (1/4).
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"As a Black woman working in #CancerResearch, I have motivated younger generations to consider scientific research." - Elicia, Scientific Officer in the ICR's Genomics Facility. #BlackInCancer #BlackInCancerWeek21 #BlackinCancerRollCall #BlackinSTEM #BlackInCancer21
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📣 BREAKING NEWS: We've officially opened our new #CentreForCancerDrugDiscovery to our researchers. It houses the world’s first ‘Darwinian’ drug discovery programme, aiming to overcome cancer’s ability to evolve resistance to treatment. Find out more ⤵️
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We are proud to award the title of Professor to three researchers from across the ICR and @royalmarsdennhs!. Congratulations to Susana Banerjee (@BanerjeeSusana), Helen McNair (@H_A_McNair) and Khin Thway!🎉👏
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Huge congratulations to Dr Jörg Mansfeld (@MansfeldLab) who has been awarded a prestigious @CR_UK Senior #CancerResearch Fellowship! 🎉. The fellowship will support his work in investigating how reactive oxygen species can regulate the cell cycle.
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On #GlioblastomaAwarenessDay, we remember Laura Nuttall who was a positive force of nature, and committed to supporting #CancerResearch. Here's a video from her visit to the ICR to support our lab coat project🥼featuring #Cancer patients' stories, reading her letter to cancer:
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Today, Paul starts his Moronic Moped Marathon challenge for the ICR!. 1,800 miles on a 49cc moped through some of the UK's rudest named places. Follow his progress on Instagram: @moronicmopedmarathon and read more about his challenge here:
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Congratulations to Professor @robert_huddart, whose IMPART paper for bladder #Radiotherapy has won the @RCRadiologists' 2021 Frank Ellis Prize!. The prize is awarded to the paper considered to have made the best contribution to advancing the cause of #Science in #CancerTreatment.
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We're delighted to welcome Professor @trevoragraham as the new Director of the Centre for #Evolution and #Cancer on the 1st of March! . Professor Graham joins us from @QMBCI at @QMUL where he creates computational tools that reconstruct cancer's mutational past.
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🎉 Today, we're launching the 'Man Van' - a mobile health service that aims to boost early diagnosis of #ProstateCancer 🚐. The pilot project, led by ICR's @Prof_Nick_James, hopes to improve healthcare access for men at risk of late diagnosis.
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👏🎉Congratulations to Dr Claudio Alfieri and Dr Gideon Coster who have each received Career Development Awards from @wellcometrust!. This vital funding, which combined is worth more than £5m, will give them both long-term stability and funding to expand their #CancerResearch. 🔬
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WATCH: how do chromatography machines help our structural biologists work towards defeating cancer? Find out more
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👑We're so proud to receive a #QAPrize from Her Majesty The Queen today for our #BreastCancer research. Read more about the special event 👇.
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🎉Congratulations to Dr Matthew Clarke (@PathologyHouse) who was awarded a Chairman's Prize at this year's ICR graduation ceremony for his outstanding contribution to #Glioma #ChildhoodCancer research!👏 (1/2). #ICRGrad #CCAM #ICRAwards2022
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🎉👏 Congratulations to Dr Stephen-John Sammut (@stephensammut) who has won the prestigious Graham Bull Prize from the @RCPhysicians!. The prize is in recognition of his work in personalised #BreastCancer medicine. Find out more 👇.
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BREAKING: New ICR manifesto calls for action on cancer drug access. Our accompanying survey of >1,000 cancer patients finds that many face barriers in receiving the latest treatments. Read more: #DrugAccess
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BREAKING NEWS: The world’s first ‘Darwinian’ drug discovery programme specially designed to tackle cancer’s lethal ability to evolve resistance to treatment is to be launched in a state-of-the-art new building in London.
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The ICR's CEO, Professor Paul Workman, has today published a letter in @thesundaytimes that expresses concern about the potential impact on cancer research and the treatment of cancer patients should the #Brexit occur without a deal:
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👏 We’re excited to announce that our researchers are returning to their labs this week to resume research. 👩🏾🔬 👨🏼🔬 👩🏼🔬 🧑🏿🔬 🧑🔬 . Following #COVID19 safety regulations, they will be coming onto site using staggered working patterns.
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We're joining organisations worldwide to support #LGBTSTEMDay. It's the first international day of #LGBT+ people in science, technology, engineering, and maths – or LGBTSTEM Day for short! Find out more:
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🏆We are delighted that Professor Clare Isacke (@ClareIsacke), a leading ICR researcher, has been awarded the 2024 Women in Science Achievement Award by @MetastasisRS, for her significant contribution to #BreastCancer research. Read more👇 .
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🎥 Renowned street artist James Cochran (@akajimmyc) created 'Cell Defence' - a unique painting made up of 50,000 dots of paint from a lab pipette to symbolise the creativity and commitment of our scientists to outsmart cancer evolution. #LetsFinishCancer
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Professor Sir Mel Greaves, who first joined the ICR in 1984, comments on the news of his knighthood:. #NewYearsHonours
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📡 The first proton beam therapy clinical trial in the UK, co-led by the ICR, is now up and running at @TheChristie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester ✨. By delivering more precise beams, the therapy could help to reduce patients' side effects 📉. 👉
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Laura was diagnosed with #Glioblastoma when she was 18 years old. We recently welcomed Laura and her family to our labs to meet Professor Chris Jones, leader of the ICR's #Glioma team, to hear about some of the pioneering research being carried out into #BrainCancer.
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💊 NEWS: A new drug that has passed safety tests in adults, fadraciclib, is likely to be effective against the #childhoodcancer neuroblastoma, our scientists have found. Read more:
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📣 Congratulations to ICR scientist David Mansfield for winning the #ICRScienceImageCompetition! 🔬📸🦠. His image, which captures a dramatic moment in a tumour as immune cells circle in on cancer cells, impressed our judges. 🎉👏. Read more about it 👇 .
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Congratulations to Dr Matt Clarke (@PathologyHouse) - winner of the 2022 Mel Greaves Science Writing Prize!. The prize was given for his engaging and provocative opinion piece about the potential of post-mortems to transform #BrainTumour research (1/3).
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BREAKING: Tonight at 7pm on @BBCTheOneShow, Dr @Kevin_Fong interviews Professor Kevin Harrington and Professor Alan Melcher (ICR/@royalmarsdenNHS) about their work in viral #immunotherapy: modifying harmless viruses to target cancer cells. Find out more:
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"We worked day and night with a shared passion to win the race to discover the #BRCA2 gene.". Sally Swift was part of the team that made the BRCA2 #Cancer gene discovery in 1995. We recently celebrated their achievement by unveiling a plaque at our laboratories. #WorldCancerDay
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📰BREAKING NEWS: We're proud to announce that a team from the ICR and @royalmarsdenNHS has been recognised with the #TeamScience Award by the @AACR. Their research has transformed treatment for many patients with #BreastCancer. #AACR22 👇.
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It's #InternationalMotherLanguageDay!. We believe that our strength comes from combining what we have in common – our shared goals and values – with what makes each of us different. Today, our scientists celebrate their differences and our combined goal - to defeat #Cancer.
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Professor Chris Lord (@IcrLordLab) was part of the team that showed that PARP inhibitors, such as olaparib, can selectively target cells with BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations. He reacts to the remarkable findings from the global OlympiA trial, which involved other ICR scientists 👇
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🙌Dave Robertson, who works in our Division of #BreastCancer Research and @BreastCancerNow Research Centre, is retiring from the ICR today after working here for an amazing 52 years! . Let us tell you more about him and his career ⤵️
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Congratulations to ICR professors @helin_kristian. and @trevoragraham, who have been elected as Fellows of the @acmedsci! 🎉. The Fellowship recognises researchers whose contributions have helped advance understanding and public health. #AMSFellows2022
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ICR and @royalmarsdenNHS researchers have been awarded a £2.5m grant to set up the world's largest digital hub of #sarcoma research data. Using that data, they aim to develop more personalised treatments for people with high-risk sarcomas.
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🧬 25 years ago, researchers at the ICR discovered the BRCA2 gene with funding from @CR_UK and support from @BreastCancerNow. 📰 @RobinMcKie tells the story and shares how the discovery helped save Tony and Dee's lives in @ObserverUK. #BRCA2Anniversary.
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We love to see so many people out on the bridges over the M6 as the #DaveDay riders head north to #Barrow!. It's moving to see how loved #DaveMyers is - thank you for supporting this special day ♥️🙏.
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🏆 NEWS: We've ranked 2nd in the UK for research excellence and impact in @ResEngland's Research Excellence Framework (@REF_2021)!. We also received the highest score of any UK higher education institution for research in #BiologicalSciences 👇. #REF2021
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🥳The Alfieri Group recently celebrated both @calfieri84's birthday and their @NatureComms paper revealing the high-resolution structure of the cell division protein complex SIN3B🧬🔬. Find out more:.
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💊NEWS: Scientists have identified a new class of targeted drugs that could potentially treat a range of cancers with faulty #BRCA genes. Combining the new drugs, POLQ inhibitors, with PARP inhibitors may open up a way of overcoming drug resistance. 👉
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Professor Kristian Helin (@helin_kristian), Chief Executive of the ICR, has been elected as a Foreign Member of the @royalsociety in recognition of his outstanding contribution to #CancerResearch! (1/4)🎉🧵
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🎉 Congratulations to @Prof_Nick_James and Professor Emma Hall ( @EmmaHall71) who have both been awarded recognitions by the Royal College of Radiologists (@RCRadiologists)! ⬇️.
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Image 5 of 6: Time-lapse of a breast cancer cell sensing its environment. ⠀.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀.The cell uses focal adhesions to move around but if we could disrupt genes that affect how adhesions form we could stop the spread of cancer cells. #ICRScienceImageCompetition #sciart. 7/8
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Early findings show new drug could be ‘game-changing’ for brain cancer treatment #AACR21 #Glioblastoma.
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Huge congratulations to Dr Olivia Rossanese (@TEMT_ICR) who has taken up role of Head of the Division of Cancer Therapeutics and Director of the Cancer Therapeutics Unit at the ICR! 🎉. #Cancer #DrugDiscovery
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📉NEWS: The number of #Cancer patients entering #ClinicalTrials fell by nearly 60% during the first year of the #COVID19 pandemic. Today, we're calling for urgent investment to help recover cancer clinical trials. Read more 👇. #TrialAccess
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We are delighted to be awarded £30 million by @HEFCE @beisgovuk towards a new Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery
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#OnThisDay 100 years ago Rosalind Franklin was born - her research into the structure of DNA was crucial to the development of modern genetic research. Find out more about how #genomics is helping us to make the discoveries that will defeat cancer:
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"I didn't know where to look, and I am a consultant breast surgeon.". We need better systems to help people with cancer find suitable clinical trials. Hear from Dr @Liz_ORiordan on what it was like to search for trials. We want Government to better coordinate trial information.
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🎄✨Last week we held our 20th annual Carols from Chelsea!. We'd like to say a huge thank you to all of our amazing readers - Eddie Redmayne, @EmiliaFox, @VictoriaSmurfit, @markaustintv, Sophie Winkleman, and Mike Shaw - for making our festive evening so special.
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@NatureRevCancer This research was largely funded by @bloodwise_uk and The Kay Kendall Leukaemia Fund.
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"Cancer trials to me mean hope." - Dr @Liz_ORiordan. Recruitment to #ClinicalTrials dropped by 60% during the pandemic, but, for many, trials mean hope for a better quality of life and more time with loved ones. We're calling for improved #TrialAccess for everyone with #Cancer.
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People are standing up around the world to say #BlackLivesMatter. Our Black, Asian and minority ethnic forum at the ICR and @RoyalMarsdenNHS wrote the following message on behalf of the ICR. Thread:👇
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BREAKING: New era in cancer treatment to begin as @MayorofLondon Sadiq Khan opens revolutionary radiotherapy machine
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👏 We're incredibly proud of Professor Johann de Bono, of the ICR and @RoyalMarsdenNHS, being named one of the Most Influential Men in Health and Fitness by @MensHealthUK for his ground-breaking research into #ProstateCancer: .
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More coverage of our big story today from BBC News:. Cancer: Breakthrough treatments to target drug resistance
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New results from the OlympiA #ClinicalTrial show that adding olaparib to standard treatment cuts the risk of women dying from early-stage #BreastCancer with #BRCA 1/2 mutations by 32%. Hear from Prof. Andrew Tutt, Director of the @BreastCancerNow Research Centre at the ICR 👇
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🎉🧬 25 years ago today our researchers published a paper identifying the BRCA2 gene - a discovery that transformed the field of #CancerResearch. Learn more about our research into #BRCA genes: #BRCA2Anniversary
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🎯 NEWS: Advances in #Radiotherapy mean it’s now possible to treat low to medium-risk, localised #ProstateCancer in just five sessions. Results from the PACE-B trial led by @royalmarsdenNHS and the ICR will be presented at #ASTRO22 on Monday. Read more 👇.
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It's #WomenInScienceDay!. We asked five of our #Cancer researchers who it was that first inspired them to pursue a career in #STEM that would lead them to become today's #WomenInScience 👩🔬👇.
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Watch the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, read his amazing new poem 'Finishing it'. This 51-word poem — engraved onto a cancer pill — highlights the urgent need to complete our #CentreForCancerDrugDiscovery.
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Image 2 of 8: Melanoma on a chip. Part of a melanoma cell has been blasted away using a technique called ion beam milling. This process helps researchers look inside cells in unprecedented detail, to help them understand the processes happening inside. 4/11
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Former ICR Chief Executive Professor Paul Workman has worked in cancer research for over 50 years. Recently treated for prostate cancer, he reflects on his journey from cancer scientist to cancer patient. Read his story here ⤵️.
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Huge congratulations to our graduating class of 2022! 🎓 . We're so proud of all of your achievements and your contributions to #CancerResearch! . #ICRGrad #ICRAwards2022 #PhD
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Our pioneering #CentreForCancerDrugDiscovery is officially open! . 🎥 Find out how this new building and the research within it is set to transform the future of cancer treatment with a world-first anti-evolution drug discovery programme:. #LetsFinishCancer
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🎉 We'd like to wish huge congratulations to Dr Yinyin Yuan and Dr Amanda Swain, who have been awarded academic promotions to Professor and Reader!. They join Drs Nick van As, Ian Chau, and Michael Hubank from @royalmarsdenNHS who were each awarded Professorships by the ICR.
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👩🏻🔬👩🏽💼👩🏾🏫👩🏼For #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience we asked some of the many fantastic women leading the way at the ICR to pass on advice from their #MemorableMentors. . What is the best piece of advice you have received from a mentor? Share it below! 👇. #IDWGS
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"Hormonal therapy can induce a ‘winter’, for cancer cells. Some of them will die off, but some of them will enter a hibernation state. If we interfere with the enzyme instructing the cells into this change, we can kill the cells.". - Prof Luca Magnani on @SkyNews just now
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💊 NEWS: The immunotherapy drug #atezolizumab together with the precision drug #ipatasertib could offer a new way of treating some people with aggressive #BrainCancer, early results from a Phase I trial led by the ICR and @royalmarsdenNHS suggest. #AACR21.
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📻 Tune in to @bbc5live from 12:30pm today. 👩🔬 Dr Olivia Rossanese (@TEMT_ICR) will be speaking to Naga Munchetty (@TVNaga01) about her career, the impact of #Covid19 on cancer resesarch, and our new #CentreForCancerDrugDiscovery. 👉
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Our research has temporarily been on hold during the #COVID19 crisis, but cancer has not. Today, we're launching our #KickstartICR appeal and we need your support to help us make up for time lost in defeating cancer. 👉 Support us:
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It's #InternationalWomensDay! And our scientists are helping to #BreakTheBias of what it means to be a '#Cancer researcher' by showcasing their full lives and passions outside of the lab:. #IWD2022 #IWD #InternationalWomensDay2022 #WomenInScience
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