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Two years too long; queue for life-extending breast cancer drug in Trafalgar Square as campaigners demand NHS access to Enhertu
A poignant queue formed in Trafalgar Square, representing the thousands of people facing an agonising wait for NHS access to life-extending ...
Welsh scientists receive funding to better understand breast cancer linked to inherited gene changes
Researchers are working to gain a better understanding of how breast cancers caused by the inherited altered BRCA1 gene survive so they can ...
Record number of Black and South Asian UK women are checking their breasts, but not frequently enough
New data from Breast Cancer Now reveals a growing number of Black and South Asian women across the UK are regularly checking their breasts f...
Researchers unmask how changes in a ‘hidden’ network in human lymph nodes affect breast cancer survival
New research funded by Breast Cancer Now* has uncovered changes in the structure of lymph nodes that could one day help identify people who ...
Lisa Snowdon and Julia Bradbury host Breast Cancer Now’s fashion show with a difference
24 people living with and beyond breast cancer took to the runway in an empowering fashion show, including twins who went through breast ca...
People are dying while access to life-extending breast cancer drug remains blocked more than two years on
Breast Cancer Now is demanding urgent action as new NHS drug spending limits create a fresh opportunity to approve the life-extending breast...
Almost one million people are living with or beyond breast cancer and set to rise
New figures show that 920,000 people are living with or beyond a diagnosis of breast cancer in the UK, and it’s projected this figure will r...
Scientists discover new avenue for treating an aggressive form of breast cancer
New research funded by Breast Cancer Now has revealed that a gene typically active only in reproductive cells may hold the key to new treatm...
Women not taking up first invitation to breast screening is a decades long crisis, warns leading breast cancer charity
Just 63.6% of women invited for their first breast screening appointment in England attended last year (2024-2025), with most first-time inv...
Leading cancer charities team up to tackle the spread of breast and prostate cancers to the bones
Leading cancer charities Breast Cancer Now and Prostate Cancer Research have joined forces to fund six groundbreaking new research projects ...
Belfast researchers explore inequalities facing people in NI with incurable metastatic breast cancer
A new study is setting out to understand and address health inequalities and better support people with incurable metastatic breast cancer i...