The American Association for Cancer Research and the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) honored Paul A. Bunn Jr., M.D., for his leadership in lung cancer research at the first Molecular Origins of Lung Cancer conference this week. The conference, held from Jan. 11-14, 2010, drew more than 300 people from around [...]

A condition that affects the memory and concentration of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy is sustained in a subgroup of patients, compromising their ability to function and long-term quality of life, according to research presented on wednesday at a major cancer conference.

Giving cancer patients information on how to deal with their pain and manage their medicine can result in a 20 per cent improvement in pain control, according to research presented at the NCRI Cancer Conference in Birmingham.

A ten minute talk between a woman and a health professional increases the chances she will be ‘breast cancer aware’ by six fold, according to research published online in the British Journal of Cancer (BJC) and presented at the NCRI Cancer Conference in Birmingham yesterday (Wednesday).

AstraZeneca is to double its investment in Cancer Research UK’s biomarker research in an effort to better understand how drugs behave in early stage clinical trials.
This announcement coincides with a presentation at the NCRI Cancer Conference in Birmingham by Professor Caroline Dive from Cancer Research UK’s Paterson Institute for Cancer Research at the University [...]