CANCER RESEARCH UK

Cancer Research UK, the UK's leading cancer charity This site has a wealth of information about the charity and about cancer We also have many ways for you to make a donation or to support our vital cancer research

There will be better treatments with fewer side effects – Treatments that accurately target the cancer and have few serious side effects will be available for at least half of all patients. We will achieve this goal by: Growing our drug discovery and development operations to ensure that basic research is turned into new treatments quickly Supporting research into high-risk or innovative treatments that offer substantial benefits, for example for rarer cancers Maintaining a best-in-class technology transfer and commercialisation arm to ensure that patients benefit from all publicly-funded cancer research Supporting the development of new treatment strategies aimed at improving survival, quality of life and patient convenience, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, or combination therapies Maintaining and developing infrastructure to support large-scale clinical trials, through our network of Clinical Trials Units and Experimental Cancer Medicine Centres Continuing to promote, support and develop clinical training initiatives Supporting trials to understand which patients benefit from which treatments Promoting the best treatment strategies to Government, commercial organisations and those responsible for cancer care Establishing a UK-wide network of Cancer Research Centres to improve knowledge flow from laboratories to patients and vice versa.