Cancer
Cancer campus home to a state-of-the-art comprehensive cancer research centre.
Experts addressing the full cancer detection and treatment pathway.
In active research grants.
Clinical studies active at NHS sites across Manchester, including the Christie Hospital.
Pilot offering lung health checks across Manchester has now been rolled out as a national targeted lung cancer screening programme.
Research prompted NICE to adopt a guideline that women diagnosed with womb cancer should be screened for Lynch Syndrome.
Improving prevention and treatment of cervical cancer in Kenya.
Setting standards for biliary tract cancer care in low and middle-income countries, improving survival rates.
Increasing childhood cancer survival rates in India by levelling up research and treatment standards to match the UK.
Professor Vaskar Saha’s work to increase survival rates in India for children with leukaemia.
Studying the differences in prostate cancer among ethnic groups to deliver more targeted treatment.
Reducing the global cancer burden and innovating to extend lives
We're delivering impact across the whole cancer pathway. From genomic discovery to world leading treatments, our expertise and facilities span the entire bench to bedside journey.
We’re world leaders in cancer prevention and earlier detection. Supported by one of two high-energy proton beam centres in the UK, we’re aiding the radiotherapy treatment of tens of thousands of patients each year. Our experts are also working across cancer genomics, biomarkers, and experimental and precision medicine. Working with our partners across the world, we’re also helping to reduce inequalities across the entire cancer pathway and develop solutions to ensure more people can access precision medicine regardless of where they live.
We’re making an impact at home with innovative pilots like the mobile lung health check, giving the local, and now national population increased access to diagnostic tools designed to detect cancer when it’s at its most treatable. Across the UK our experts work closely with policymakers to implement crucial policy changes in cancer screening and treatment standards. Further afield, we’re increasing our knowledge through global partnerships. Together we’re improving access to prevention, detection and treatment strategies in low- and middle-income countries, along with for cancers of non-European descent.
This is supported by our unique Manchester Cancer Research Centre partnership, joining forces with Cancer Research UK and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust to deliver real change for people affected by the disease. Together, we aim to create a future free from the burden of cancer.
Our research covers
- Transforming outcomes for cancer patients with new prevention and detection strategies.
- Focusing research on developing innovative technologies to aide earlier detection.
- Understanding underlying risk factors for cancers, from inherited conditions such as Lynch or Li-Fraumeni Syndrome to obesity.
- Pioneering targeted radiotherapy treatments through our access to world-leading MR-Linac and proton beam therapy facilities.
- Delivering precision treatments across the different stages of a cancer's progression.
- Developing experimental therapies through early phase clinical trials to offer patients access to the newest treatments.
- Addressing the socio, cultural and environmental variables that affect cancer progressions and survival.
- Helping to identify and remedy inequalities across the cancer pathway.
- Developing cancer detection and treatment strategies that are specific to different communities across the world.
- Ensuring inequalities across the cancer pathways are identified and remedied.
- Help people, regardless of background or circumstance, to access high quality cancer care.
Key centres and institutes
Manchester Cancer Research Centre
- We're a proud partner of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, founded in 2006 alongside Cancer Research UK and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust.
- The MCRC drives the power of Team Science, enabling collaboration between clinicians, researchers, patients, and the public to tackle the biggest research challenges.
- Through the MCRC, our researchers collaborate to turn research findings into better, more effective treatments for cancer.
Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
- Driving and facilitating the development of world class translational and clinical research, resulting in practice-changing results for patients.
- Working with scientists and clinicians locally, nationally and internationally to improve care by implementing personalised medicine.
CRUK National Biomarker Centre
- Leading biomarker-informed patient management to maximise the benefit of treatments and reduce harm.
- Utilising biomarkers at every stage in a patient’s journey, from pre-disposition and early detection through to the best care in advanced disease.
CRUK Manchester Centre
- One of seven Cancer Research UK centres, connecting Manchester with other organisations to drive collaborative research.
- The Manchester Centre leverages our collective strengths in novel radiotherapy and experimental cancer medicines, earlier detection, cancer biomarkers, molecular pathology and digital technologies.
One in Two: a cancer research podcast
Created in partnership with the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, we feature cancer researchers, patients and discuss the innovations and discoveries that are changing the landscape of early detection.
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Events
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AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models
24 July 2025, 9.45am-1.30pm
AI in Healthcare: Transforming the Future with Large Language Models | GM Connected Health Ecosystem Digital Futures at the University of Manchester, Manchester University NHS Fou.. -
MBC Seminar - Professor Valerie Speirs, University of Aberdeen “Biological Insights into Breast Cancer in Men”
29 July 2025, 3pm-4pm
On Tuesday 29th July, Val Speirs, Professor of Molecular Oncology at the University of Aberdeen, will present a Manchester Breast Centre (MBC) Seminar in the Oglesby Cancer Researc..
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