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Changing the narrative around ductal carcinoma in situ and breast cancer risk
A radiographer examining a mammogram image
New findings from the Cancer Grand Challenges PRECISION team this Breast Cancer Awareness Month show that breast cancer development from DCIS is a rare event and emphasise the urgent need for accurate prognostic markers to combat DCIS…

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Today we’re announcing a major new €10m (£8.6m) partnership between Cancer Research UK and France’s Institut National Du Cancer (INCa) to help fund…
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Today, we are excited to reveal the 12 shortlisted teams who are in with a chance of securing up to $25m in Cancer Grand Challenges funding to make…
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New research from the Cancer Grand Challenges Rosetta team shows that metabolic profiling using a variety of mass spectrometry techniques can be used…
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We are pleased to welcome Dr Tom Misteli of the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Cancer Research, USA, to the Cancer Grand Challenges…

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Lorenzo de la Rica, Research Programme Manager at Cancer Grand Challenges, provides his insights on the importance of the latest paper from the Cancer Grand Challenges eDyNAmiC team, tackling the extrachromosomal DNA…
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When it comes to cancer research, we regularly hear good news about the number of people benefiting from advances in treatment. But there is one bad news story about the condition that gets little attention. For three…
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Today we announce nine new Cancer Grand Challenges, for which Expressions of Interest are now open. These are the obstacles that continue to impede progress against cancer and that no one scientist, institution or…
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We are pleased to welcome five new members to the Cancer Grand Challenges Scientific Committee: Professor Michael Hall (University of Basel), Professor Sherene Loi (Peter MacCallum Cancer Center), Professor KJ Patel (…
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Lorenzo de la Rica (@LdelaRica) is Research Portfolio Manager at Cancer Grand Challenges In 2022, we have seen our Cancer Grand Challenges (CGC) community grow, with four new teams receiving a total of $100m funding.…
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In 2017, the IMAXT team was awarded £20 million by Cancer Grand Challenges, funded by Cancer Research UK. Through the Cancer Grand Challenges initiative, a global team of experts from fields as diverse as medicine,…
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We’re leading a global conversation to help shape our next round of funding, inviting the submission of ideas via our Online Ideas Portal from now until 28 November.   Here, Sheona Scales, Head of Research at Cancer…
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How a suite of advanced machine learning algorithms is finding new cancer-causing patterns of DNA damage Cancer Grand Challenges researchers and collaborators have identified four new mutational signatures, including a…
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Advocacy plays a major role in Cancer Grand Challenges. The team taking on our Solid Tumours in Children challenge includes six advocates, representing the voice of children and families affected by solid cancers and…