2006
HPV Vaccine Trials Show Strong Protection
CRUK‑funded research helps prove that the HPV vaccine prevents the infections that cause most cervical cancers.
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2007
Discovery of Key Prostate Cancer Genetic Changes
CRUK scientists identify genetic markers that help predict aggressive prostate cancer.
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2009
Advances in radiotherapy techniques (IMRT)
Research supported by CRUK helps improve precision treatment, reducing side effects!
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2012
Bowel Cancer Screening Saves Lives
CRUK research shows that the bowel scope screening programme could prevent thousands of cancers
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2016
TRACERx Lung Cancer Study Launches
CRUK launches TRACERx, the world’s largest study tracking how lung cancer evolves.
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2018
HPV vaccine extended to boys
Boys should get the HPV vaccine to help eliminate HPV related cancers.
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1 MILLION LIVES SAVED- 2023
‘Thanks to advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment, more than one million deaths have been avoided in the UK since the mid-1980s.
But progress like this doesn’t come easily – not when you’re up against something as complex as cancer.
There wasn’t one big research breakthrough that made the difference for everyone. The story of how one million lives were saved is almost four decades long, and our understanding of cancer has grown, moment by moment, over that time.’
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