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Blood Cancer Awareness Month 2018
28th September 2018
Blood Cancer Awareness Month takes place every September to raise awareness of the challenges faced by those living with blood cancer. In the UK, blood cancer is the fifth most common cancer, with 240,000 people living with the disease and 38,000 people being diagnosed with a type of blood cancer each year.
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World Cancer Research Day 2018
24th September 2018
The 24th September is World Cancer Research Day- a day dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of cancer research. Thanks to a united effort by researchers from around the world, cancer survival rates have doubled in the last 40 years, and 50% of those diagnosed with cancer now survive.
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VOICE 2018: From bedside to bench
12th September 2018
BCI held the 2018 VOICE (Vision On Information, Confidence & Engagement) course- a study week that aims to take patient advocates from bedside to bench by providing an introduction to basic cancer biology, research terminology and study design.
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Pancreatic Cancer UK Grand Challenge
27th July 2018
Our Director, Prof Nicholas Lemoine, and a team of researchers from the BCI and King’s College London have been awarded the Pancreatic Cancer UK (PCUK) Grand Challenge- PCUK’s largest ever research fund. The grant will be […]
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BCI at the 2018 ASCO Annual Meeting: Results from the PAKT and ABACUS trials
15th June 2018
Professors Peter Schmid and Thomas Powles attended this year’s ASCO Annual Meeting, which took place from 1st-5th June in Chicago. Prof Schmid, presented data from the PAKT trial- a trial investigating the addition of a novel drug called AZD5363 to a standard chemotherapy regimen as a treatment for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Prof Powles presented results from the ABACUS trial, which is investigating the efficacy and safety of a drug called atezolizumab administered prior to cystectomy in muscle invasive bladder cancer. The ABACUS trial was selected as one of the highlights of this year’s meeting.
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International Clinical Trials Day 2018
21st May 2018
International Clinical Trials Day is celebrated on 20th May each year in recognition of the clinical trials conducted around the world, which ensure that research from the laboratory can be translated into patient benefit. The progress that is continuing to be made in cancer research, resulting in cancer survival rates doubling in the last 40 years, would not be possible without the researchers, clinicians, nurses and, of course, patients that are involved in clinical trials each year.
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