Our news pages include items about our research, media appearances, updates on our fundraising and Splash of Pink events, blogs and an archive.
Earlier this year we completed our move into the new Centre for Cancer Immunology at University of Southampton. The building is the first of its kind in the UK and has been designed to bring together scientists, cancer doctors and clinical trials specialists to allow better collaboration and to deliver newly discovered science into patients …
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This year we are marking a very special occasion, it is 25 years since Dr Anthony Leathem together with his wife Pat decided to set up Against Breast Cancer. In 1993 Anthony recognised the urgent need to improve patient survival by preventing deaths from secondary spread breast cancer. A Pathologist at Middlesex Hospital at the time, …
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Getting ringside with Industry Boxing When Industry Boxing first contacted us to talk about their ladies only ‘white collar’ events we will admit at first we were a little shocked and a bit concerned, we were also really intrigued. Who on earth would want to get into a boxing ring we thought? Well, as it …
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Congratulations to everyone who braved the soaring temperatures and took part running the hottest London Marathon on record this year. 24 runners braved the heat of over 27 degrees Celsius to take on the distance for Against Breast Cancer. Despite the soaring mercury and a shortage of water in the latter stages each of our …
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The first of the new research projects to receive funding following our call for proposals last year began in January at Barts Cancer Institute in London. The project, lead by Dr. Oliver Pearce, aims to identify how breast cancer tumours remodel their surroundings to protect them from attack by the bodies’ own immune system. We …
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