• Learn about cancer
• Cancers at a glance
• Research highlights
• About cancer research
• Understanding 'risk'
• Our history and achievements
  • Our history
  • Our achievements
    • Advances in basic research
    • Advances in clinical research and drug development
    • Advances in population research
    • Advances in information provision

The charity's achievements

Cancer research is painstaking and incremental, and progress takes time. Over the past 50 years, Cancer Research UK, and its two parent organisations, ICRF and CRC, have made many significant contributions to the field of cancer research.

Here are a few highlights:

• Advances in basic research
• Advances in clinical research and drug development
• Advances in population research
• Advances in information provision

Coming soon - our NEW updated Achievements section!