Chemotherapy uses anti cancer drugs to destroy cancer cells. Sometimes doctors use the word cytotoxic to describe the way chemotherapy works. Cytotoxic means toxic to cells. Some people may have ...

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Researchers around the world are looking at better ways to diagnose and treat eye cancer. Go to Cancer Research UK’s clinical trials database if you are looking for a trial for eye cancer in the UK.

Please note - this trial is no longer recruiting patients. We hope to add results when they are available. Chemotherapy followed by hormone therapy is often used after surgery for breast cancer to ...

There is no national screening programme for melanoma skin cancer in the UK. This is because research hasn’t been able to find out if the benefits of screening outweigh the risks. The best way to pick ...

Some people want to donate their organs or body parts for transplants. Others want their bodies to be used for research. Donating your body is a very personal choice. Some people don’t want to do this ...

Our Standard Life partnership helps local communities, colleagues and customers join the movement to beat cancer and build a ...

The lacrimal glands are above each eyeball, towards the outer part of the eyelid. The glands produce a fluid that cleans and protects the surface of the eyelid. Tears are part of this fluid. A growth ...

Treatment for CLL continues to change. Doctors are using newer targeted cancer drugs. This means a stem cell transplant is now a less common treatment for CLL. You have a transplant using donor cells ...

The number stage of a melanoma tells you how thick it is and whether it has spread. It also tells you whether the top layer of the melanoma looks broken (ulcerated) when looked at under a microscope.

Cancer Research UK is the largest cancer research organisation in the world outside the USA. We fund research on all aspects of cancer from its causes to prevention and treatment. We are committed to ...

You wake up in the recovery area next to the operating theatres. At first, you’ll be wearing a mask or having small tubes (a nasal cannulae) put into your nose to give you oxygen. You might feel dizzy ...