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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The results of 2 international studies were published recently providing new insights into the inherited / family risk of breast cancer. DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, including some of those collected through our DietCompLyf Study, were analysed to compare the genes of women with and without breast cancer. This work may …
Read moreWe are proud to announce that our Research Fellow, Max Crispin, has been granted a Professorship at the prestigious University of Southampton, a leading centre of cancer research, where he will continue work funded by the charity to develop new treatments against secondary breast cancer. Professor Crispin, who will be an Associate Member of the …
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The 1st Biochemical Society and Against Breast Cancer Glyco Oncology Workshop took place in April at the historic New College, Oxford where international scientists convened to discuss glycobiology. This is a relatively new field of research that has been slow to attract the attention of the wider scientific community and funding bodies, despite increasing recognition …
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A new way of mass-producing cancer drugs has been shown to also improve their effectiveness in work published this month by a collaboration between Against Breast Cancer scientists at the University of Oxford and in Germany. Currently, human cell lines are used to produce almost all commercially available antibody treatments in order to ensure that …
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