Cancer Research UK

Cancer Research UK's Carol Concert | St Paul's Cathedral

Video | 1 months ago

In 2025, our annual carol concert was held in the iconic St Paul’s Cathedral, and featured readings by some of the UK’s best-loved actors including Victoria Hamilton, Sir Lenny Henry CBE, Jason Isaacs, Hugh Quarshie, Gugu Mbatha Raw MBE, Leo Suter, Dame Har...

Amazing Cervical Cancer News! 💙

Short | 2 months ago

Amazing science news 💙 For the first time ever, no women aged 20-24 died from cervical cancer in a 5 year period (2020-2024). Nearly 90% of women in this age group received the HPV vaccine through school and catch-up programmes. Our research helped establi...

I love cancer research 🥺

Short | 2 months ago

Gut Bugs | Could our gut microbiome help prevent cancer? | Cancer Research UK

Short | 2 months ago

Could the bacteria in your gut help prevent cancer? In this video, we explore how the trillions of microbes living inside us, our gut bugs, play a role in our health. By understanding how gut bacteria and the chemicals they produce affect our risk of cancer...

What is precision prevention? | Cancer Research UK

Short | 2 months ago

What if we could stop cancer before it even begins? Our research is developing more personalised, powerful ways to prevent cancer. In this video, our science experts talk through prevision prevention and how it works by spotting the earliest biological chan...

Meet LungVax: the world's first vaccine to prevent lung cancer | Cancer Research UK

Short | 2 months ago

Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in the UK, which is why we're developing the world’s first vaccine designed to prevent it. Watch now and hear from our science expert about LungVax, which teaches the immune system to recognise and destro...

Smoking: Breaking the cycle of addiction

Guide | 3 months ago

The new Tobacco & Vapes Act, which we campaigned for, has made it illegal in the UK to sell tobacco products to anyone born on or after 1 Jan 2009, helping to create the first smokefree generation. Nothing would do more to prevent cancers in the UK than end...

What do the public think of the new Tobacco and Vapes Act?

Short | 3 months ago

"Anything we can do to save lives is important". We’ve been speaking to the public about the new Tobacco and Vapes Act, and many share a sense of optimism. The new legislation means that around 13 million children alive today in the UK will never legally be...

New tobacco law could have protected me from cancer

Guide | 4 months ago

Cait started smoking when she was a teenager, like most of her friends. Years later, she was diagnosed with advanced stage 3 lung cancer. She’s been through radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy, and is sharing her story in the hope that fewer young ...

What Does the New Tobacco and Vapes Law Mean for Smoking? | That Cancer Conversation

Video | 4 months ago

The Tobacco & Vapes Act is a world-leading law, and one we’ve been calling for as part of our ongoing Smokefree UK campaign. But how will it work? And what does it mean for preventing cancer? In this episode, we find out more about the law from the Minister...

I quit smoking and got my life back

Short | 4 months ago

"Smoking did its best to take my life, but now I’ve taken my life back,” says Sue. By the time she quit smoking, Sue believes she’d spent more than £100,000 on cigarettes. Her first cancer diagnosis came in 2012. “My daughters thought they were going to los...

Susie's story | I was a teenager when I started smoking

Short | 4 months ago

Susie was a teenager when she started smoking. In her words “it was the done thing” but, thanks to the new Tobacco and Vapes Act, future generations will never legally be sold tobacco in the UK. “I started to smoke as a teenager before I knew the dangers an...