You only need lungs to get lung cancer

At present, 14% of those diagnosed with lung cancer are ''never-smokers”. In other words, they have smoked fewer than 100 cigarettes in their life. So, how is it that we’ve come to assume that smoking alone causes lung cancer? Read More

MCRC Director’s Update – May 2023

The Paterson Building move continues and the MCRC attends ESTRO 2023, visits with other cancer centre collaborators and celebrates multiple accolades for researchers. Read More

Meet Dr Rille Pihlak

Rille was a clinical PhD Fellow in the HPB team from April 2016 to September 2019 and a Senior Research Fellow in the ECMT from October 2019 until March 2021 Read More

MCRC Director’s Update – April 2023

Celebrating the completion of The Paterson, a visit to the London Academy of Medical Science, The Pan Prostate Cancer Group (PPCG) conference in Madrid, my chairing of the CRUK clinical research committee and The International Alliance for Cancer Early Detection (ACED) Away Day 2023 along with much more. Read More

Special Episode – One in Two: A Manchester Cancer Research Podcast

We speak to Dr Jen Davies-Oliveira and Stewart O'Callaghan about the challenges that LGBTQIA+ people face when accessing cancer care in the UK and their joint research projects. Read More

DETERMINE trial recognised at Life Science industry awards

The clinical trial project won the Bionow Healthcare Project of the Year Award for their innovative multi-drug pan-cancer platform trial that is helping to find new treatments for rare cancers. Read More

Paterson Redevelopment Project update – May 2023

As the building has reached its completion, Professor Nic Jones, Director of Strategic Initiatives at the MCRC provides the most recent updates. Read More

Professor Fiona Thistlethwaite selected to chair ESMO 2024

ESMO Congress is the biggest oncology conference in Europe and amongst the most high-profile oncology platform for clinicians, researchers, patient advocates, journalists and healthcare industry representatives Read More

MCRC Director’s Update – March 2023

Celebrating International Women's Day, our new and renewed NIHR Senior Investigators, and progressing the Paterson Redevelopment Project cap off March at the MCRC. Read More

Wisdom from The West

On the 15th – 17th March 2023, the MCRC attended Wisdom from ‘The West’, an international conference organised in honour of Professor Catharine West, who retired in 2023. Read More

Scientists advance dream of targeted real time treatment of hypoxic cancers

Imaging researchers have taken a major step towards their ultimate goal of identifying cancers that are starved of oxygen so that altered treatment can be used to target them more effectively. Read More

Cancer Researchers Recognised as NIHR Senior Investigators

The four cancer research academics are recognised for the quality and volume of their international research. Read More

MCRC Director’s Update – February 2023

World Cancer Day 2023, a new special podcast episode, and research funding for bone cancer research cap off an eventful February at the MCRC. Read More

Developing treatment options for high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC)

We talk to Dr Anya Golder who completed her PhD on HGSOC. She details her research into new therapies and the multiple-low-dose approach. Read More