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UK scientists discover a new way to help prevent breast cancer ‘time bomb’
Scientists have discovered why breast cancer cells that have spread to the lungs may ‘wake up’ following years of sleep - forming incurable ...
Breast Cancer Now expands its #NoTimeToWaste campaign as data reveals over one million women in England missed out on vital breast cancer screening last year
Today’s latest Breast Screening Performance data for 2021-22 reveals that the percentage of women taking up their invitation to breast scree...
Glasgow scientists discover key to supercharging immunotherapy’s ability to stop breast cancer spreading to the lung
Breast cancer immunotherapy could be more effective if an immune cell that prevents it from working is targeted at the same time, according ...
Targeting variant of common protein may dramatically boost effectiveness of breast cancer treatment
A rare variant of a protein present in nearly all human cells may hold the key to improving the effectiveness of breast cancer treatment, ac...
Inaugural Dame Vera Lynn Fellowship scientist aims to stop breast cancer hiding from the immune system
UK charity Breast Cancer Now has announced the first two recipients of its Dame Vera Lynn Translational Research Fellowship, a new scheme wh...
Glasgow researchers to investigate using existing drug as new treatment for triple negative breast cancer
Leading Glasgow scientists will investigate if an existing drug, devimistat, which is currently being tested for treating other types of can...
Scientists discover how to boost effectiveness of novel drug for breast cancer
Leading UK scientists funded by Breast Cancer Now and Cancer Research UK have discovered a way to significantly boost the effectiveness of x...
Breast Cancer Now brings together leading experts for the UK Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Symposium
Today marks the start of the two-day (Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 January) UK Interdisciplinary Breast Cancer Symposium (UKIBCS), hosted by lea...
Breast Cancer Now launches urgent campaign in final bid to see life-extending drug guaranteed for women living with triple negative incurable breast cancer
Hopes have been shattered for hundreds of women with incurable triple negative secondary breast cancer today, as the National Institute for ...
Scientists report link between male infertility and breast cancer in men
In one of the largest studies into male breast cancer, scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, studied 1,998 men newly diagn...
More than 700 walkers cross the finish line at Breast Cancer Now’s Blenheim Palace and the Cotswolds Pink Ribbon Walk
Women and men wearing pink walked 10 or 20 miles on the Pink Ribbon Walk to raise money for Breast Cancer Now’s world-class breast cancer re...
44% of women with breast cancer say it negatively impacted their body image
44% of women said having breast cancer negatively impacted their body image and a quarter (25%) said the same for their sense of identity, a...