Becca wins Best Health Project at National Lottery Awards 2018

Responding to the news that Breast Cancer Care’s app, Becca, has won Best Health Project at the National Lottery Awards 2018, Samia al Qadhi, Chief...

21 August 2018

New DNA 'shield' with crucial roles in normal cell division, the immune system and cancer discovered

The study – funded in part by Breast Cancer Now and Cancer Research UK – was published today in Nature, and was the result of an international...

18 July 2018

New fan launched to help women with breast cancer gets Britain’s Got Talent seal of approval

The stylish design can be personalised upon request, and millions recently watched Simon Cowell cooling off with a customised FanU on ITV’s primetime...

18 July 2018

We’re teaming up with ghd and Lulu Guinness

The new collection consists of a ghd gold® styler and ghd air® hair dryer featuring Lulu’s iconic lip print – and with every purchase, ghd will...

16 July 2018

Study suggests breast screening based on women's risk levels would reduce overdiagnosis and be more cost-effective

In a new economic evaluation and simulation modelling study – published in JAMA Oncology – researchers concluded that a screening initiative that...

6 July 2018

NI Minister Shailesh Vara visits leading breast cancer researchers in Belfast

During a tour of the research labs, Mr Vara met Dr Niamh Buckley and Dr Paul Mullan to learn about their ground-breaking research into ‘triple...

3 July 2018

New research exposes inadequate care for breast cancer patients at treatment end

With the release of substantive new research uncovering inadequate care for women with breast cancer after they’ve finished hospital treatment...

2 July 2018

Higher BMI is associated with a lower risk of breast cancer before the menopause

In the largest global study into the relationship between weight and premenopausal breast cancer to date, scientists from The Institute of Cancer...

21 June 2018

Hundreds of breast cancer patients denied or rushed into life-changing surgeries amid rise of policies to restrict breast reconstruction

Hundreds of breast cancer patients are being denied or rushed into the reconstructive surgeries they need, following the introduction of 'arbitrary'...

18 June 2018