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Breast Cancer Now launches petition to ensure triple negative secondary breast cancer patients can access promising new treatment
Breast Cancer Now launches petition calling on a pharmaceutical company to ensure that triple negative secondary breast cancer patients can ...
Targeting essential protein could lead to new breast cancer treatments
A protein frequently found in high levels in breast cancer cells helps tumours to survive and grow, and could be targeted with a new type of...
Breast Cancer Now achieves landmark moment as NHS England announces National Metastatic Breast Cancer Audit
Charity Breast Cancer Now and its campaigners are extremely proud that today, the first ever National Metastatic Breast Cancer Audit, funded...
HRH The Prince of Wales visits Breast Cancer Now Research Centre, to hear about achievements and how COVID-19 has impacted charity-funded research
HRH The Prince of Wales visited the Breast Cancer Now Toby Robins Research Centre, at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, on Thursday ...
‘Wear Something Important’ for Fashion Targets Breast Cancer and raise vital funds for Breast Cancer Now
Four inspirational women will share their personal experiences of breast cancer and how it has impacted their identity as they model the col...
Cognitive behavioural therapy delivered by nurses can reduce “overwhelming” menopausal symptoms for women with breast cancer
Menopausal symptoms - hot flushes and night sweats – experienced by women with breast cancer can be reduced through group cognitive behaviou...
Almost 11,000 people living with undiagnosed breast cancer in UK
Nearly 11,000 people in the UK could be living with breast cancer that has not yet been diagnosed due to disruption caused by the COVID-19 p...
Breast Cancer Now funds Belfast research project to identify pandemic’s impact on diagnosis and treatment
Breast cancer patients will be asked to share their experiences of the pandemic with Belfast scientists as part of a new research project fu...
Half of UK women say pandemic had ‘significant impact’ on their wait for and experience of breast reconstruction
Half of the women who took part in a Breast Cancer Now survey in the UK say the COVID-19 pandemic had a "significant impact" on them.
2 in 5 women in the UK do not check their breasts regularly for the signs and symptoms of breast cancer
New research from leading research and support charity, Breast Cancer Now, has revealed that two in five - 41% of - women in the UK do not c...
Research seeks to call time on breast cancer by harnessing the power of the body clock
Scientists funded by Breast Cancer Now are investigating whether patients with the disease could benefit from taking medication at specific ...
Extra radiotherapy boost helps prevent early form of breast cancer returning
In the first trial of its kind, scientists followed 1,608 women with higher risk ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) from 136 participating cent...