Cancer Research UK
Press releases

• Teen cancer survival on the rise, but more work needed
  (19.08.2008)

  The first national report detailing survival for teenagers and young adults with cancer shows that survival rates climbed by around 11 per cent over two decades.

• Singer Sandi Thom ages 30 years to warn young people about sunbeds
  (19.08.2008)

  Singer/songwriter Sandi Thom, aged 27, has teamed up with Cancer Research UK to warn youngsters about the dangers of using sunbeds. The charity has today published shocking images of how Sandi could look in thirty years time through overexposure to UV rays, which in some sunbeds can be 10-15 times higher than those of the midday sun.

• Depression prompts thoughts of death in cancer patients
  (11.08.2008)

  Cancer patients are three times more likely to think they would be "better off dead" or to contemplate suicide than the rest of the population – a Cancer Research UK study reports online today.*

• Cancer Research UK expresses 'deep concern' on kidney cancer drug decision
  (7.08.2008)

  Cancer Research UK is very disappointed with NICE's decision to reject four kidney cancer drugs*.

• Modern living spells disaster for couples - less a third of people feel challenged in their relationships.
  (1.08.2008)

  British couples are spending "less time together than ever before", according to a relationship expert. A survey released today shows that modern living is leaving little room in relationships for challenge and stimulation and little time for joint activities like exercise - or even talking.