Patients
What areas of Cancer Research is the NICR interested in?
You can find out more about our research areas. If you would like to support our cancer research you can make a donation.
What is Cancer?
Free information services regarding types of cancers, treatments, and general advice can be found on the CancerHelpUK website, maintained by Cancer Research UK.
Moreover, the informative and interactive diagram illustrates how cancer grows and spreads.
Information for Patients, their Families and Carers
MacMillan Cancer Support merged in 2008 with a reputable information site, Cancerbackup, to enhance people’s access to high-quality cancer information. MacMillan Cancer Support provides up-to-date cancer information, practical advice and support for cancer patients, their families and carers.
CancerHelp UK also maintains a helpful list of links relating to different types of cancer, general cancer and cancer information in multiple languages.
Information on Clinical Trials in your area
Information on what are clinical trials and how to take part in them can be found on the CancerHelp UK website. The National Cancer Research Network and Cancer Research UK websites have databases of current clinical trials.
Cancer Statistics
Cancer Research UK provides extensive information about the incidence of all the main types of cancer, as well as survival and mortality rates.
International Cancer Research Portfolio
The International Cancer Research Portfolio is a database of information on cancer research awards of 25 US and UK cancer funding organisations. It can be searched by cancer type, research area or funding organisation and provides a summary of the research grant.
How you can get involved
Information on what are clinical trials and how to take part in them can be found on the CancerHelp UK website. The National Cancer Research Network and Cancer Research UK websites have databases of current clinical trials.
In order to undertake our research it is essential that we have access to samples from patients with cancer or leukaemia. We store the samples we need in a variety of "Biobanks". Details of these, and similar sample collections held by other research teams in the University, can be found here.
To learn more of the UK Biobank initiative and how you could get involved visit the UK Biobank website.
