About our research
At Breast Cancer Now, we fund world-class research that helps us discover how to prevent breast cancer, save lives and help people to live well with the disease.
To date, we’ve already invested £315 million in breast cancer research. And we’re not about to stop. Right now, we’re funding over 90 cutting-edge projects to discover how we can prevent breast cancer, save lives, and help people to live well with and beyond the disease.
Our research areas
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Our research into secondary breast cancer
Secondary breast cancer can be treated but not cured. Our research aims to extend lives, allowing people to live fully.
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Improving quality of life
Breast cancer affects people’s lives in many different ways. Using our research, we want to improve their quality of life.
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Our research into better treatments
More people are surviving breast cancer, with UK survival rates doubling in the last 40 years, thanks to research into better treatments.
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Our research into prevention and early diagnosis
We aim for fewer breast cancer diagnoses and better survival through early detection and research.
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Why do we fund research?
More people are surviving breast cancer than ever before. That’s thanks to research. But breast cancer is far from a done deal.
Too many people are still diagnosed late, once the disease has spread and become incurable. We have treatments, but not enough, and often they come with gruelling side effects. And breast cancer continues to take far too many lives. Around 11,500 women and 85 men every year in the UK. Almost all of them from metastatic breast cancer.
We have a bold vision. That by 2050, everyone with breast cancer will live and live well. But to make that a reality, we need to go further and faster than ever. And world-class research is key to that.
How do we fund research?
We fund world-class research with the highest potential to benefit people at risk of or affected by breast cancer. All our new research funding undergoes thorough review processes, carried out by independent experts from around the world.
Part of my job is to work with our scientific advisors and patient advocates to guide our trustees, to make sure that we choose the best possible research, which is going to have the biggest possible impact.
Key facts
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Our investment
To date, we’ve invested over £315 million in world-class breast cancer research.
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90 research projects
We fund over 90 cutting-edge research projects worth almost £30 million.
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£15 million
This year, we're planning to spend over £15 million on more cutting-edge research.