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It’s been a busy year for World Cancer Research Fund as we continue to fund pioneering new research into cancer prevention. Here’s how your generous donations have made a difference in 2025
Donor power in action: 19 new research awards taking on cancer before and after diagnosis
We’ve awarded 19 new research grants, investing more than £5m to help people avoid cancer and live better and longer after a diagnosis
The importance of pilot and feasibility studies
Researchers use these studies to identify and explore potential challenges before a main trial begins
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Try our quiz on 1990s food trends
What were those delicious toastable pastry snacks called? What curry-based song was released for the World Cup in 1998?
How a lifetime of data provides lifelines for cancer research
Three decades ago, we funded an exciting project on women’s health. 30 years later, scientists and women from the study gathered to look back on what the UK Women’s Cohort Study has achieved
What helps bowel cancer survivors eat healthily and stay active after treatment?
Research in the Netherlands is providing a better picture of the challenges people with bowel cancer face, and what can motivate them towards better health
Further research into colorectal cancer
Advanced Glycation End Products: are exposures associated with colorectal cancer risk and survival?
Mazda Jenab is researching high fat/protein or animal-source foods, and how they impact colorectal cancer
Investigating colorectal cancer in young adults
We’re funding a new research project into the role of overweight/obesity, diabetes, diet, and physical inactivity in early-onset colorectal cancer
Vegetables, processed meat, or water: does it matter where we get our nitrate and nitrite from?
Nitrate-rich vegetables are beneficial for health, but evidence links nitrate in water and meat to cancer
Latest research-related news and blogs
Thank you for your support in 2025!
It’s been a busy year for World Cancer Research Fund as we continue to fund pioneering new research into cancer prevention. Here’s how your generous donations have made a difference in 2025
Donor power in action: 19 new research awards taking on cancer before and after diagnosis
We’ve awarded 19 new research grants, investing more than £5m to help people avoid cancer and live better and longer after a diagnosis
The importance of pilot and feasibility studies
Researchers use these studies to identify and explore potential challenges before a main trial begins
Latest research-related news and blogs
Thank you for your support in 2025!
It’s been a busy year for World Cancer Research Fund as we continue to fund pioneering new research into cancer prevention. Here’s how your generous donations have made a difference in 2025
Donor power in action: 19 new research awards taking on cancer before and after diagnosis
We’ve awarded 19 new research grants, investing more than £5m to help people avoid cancer and live better and longer after a diagnosis
The importance of pilot and feasibility studies
Researchers use these studies to identify and explore potential challenges before a main trial begins
Thank you for your support in 2025!
It’s been a busy year for World Cancer Research Fund as we continue to fund pioneering new research into cancer prevention. Here’s how your generous donations have made a difference in 2025
Donor power in action: 19 new research awards taking on cancer before and after diagnosis
We’ve awarded 19 new research grants, investing more than £5m to help people avoid cancer and live better and longer after a diagnosis
The importance of pilot and feasibility studies
Researchers use these studies to identify and explore potential challenges before a main trial begins
Latest research-related news and blogs
Thank you for your support in 2025!
It’s been a busy year for World Cancer Research Fund as we continue to fund pioneering new research into cancer prevention. Here’s how your generous donations have made a difference in 2025
Donor power in action: 19 new research awards taking on cancer before and after diagnosis
We’ve awarded 19 new research grants, investing more than £5m to help people avoid cancer and live better and longer after a diagnosis
The importance of pilot and feasibility studies
Researchers use these studies to identify and explore potential challenges before a main trial begins
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Biomarkers of acrylamide exposure and risk of endometrial and ovarian cancers
Eric Duell’s research did not support the hypothesis that acrylamide exposure is associated with higher risks for endometrial and ovarian cancers
Body composition and breast cancer risk
Laure Dossus’s research study looks at whether the association between body composition and breast cancer risk is mediated by immune function and chronic inflammation
Body composition and colorectal cancer recurrence and survival
This WCRF-funded research showed that body composition is associated with chances of survival after colorectal cancer and with fatigue
Body composition and chemotherapy toxicity in women with early breast cancer
Can the amount of muscle and fat in the body, and how well the cells of the body are working, predict how people respond to chemotherapy?
Body fatness at adolescence, adult attained height and the development of tumours in Lynch syndrome
Investigating the role of body fatness at adolescence & height on cancer in people with Lynch syndrome
Body mass index and surviving colorectal and endometrial cancers
The impact of BMI on cancer-related survival in chemotherapy-naive patients with non-metastatic colorectal and endometrial cancer
Latest research-related news and blogs
Thank you for your support in 2025!
It’s been a busy year for World Cancer Research Fund as we continue to fund pioneering new research into cancer prevention. Here’s how your generous donations have made a difference in 2025
Donor power in action: 19 new research awards taking on cancer before and after diagnosis
We’ve awarded 19 new research grants, investing more than £5m to help people avoid cancer and live better and longer after a diagnosis
The importance of pilot and feasibility studies
Researchers use these studies to identify and explore potential challenges before a main trial begins
Latest research-related news and blogs
Thank you for your support in 2025!
It’s been a busy year for World Cancer Research Fund as we continue to fund pioneering new research into cancer prevention. Here’s how your generous donations have made a difference in 2025
Donor power in action: 19 new research awards taking on cancer before and after diagnosis
We’ve awarded 19 new research grants, investing more than £5m to help people avoid cancer and live better and longer after a diagnosis
The importance of pilot and feasibility studies
Researchers use these studies to identify and explore potential challenges before a main trial begins
Latest research-related news and blogs
Thank you for your support in 2025!
It’s been a busy year for World Cancer Research Fund as we continue to fund pioneering new research into cancer prevention. Here’s how your generous donations have made a difference in 2025
Donor power in action: 19 new research awards taking on cancer before and after diagnosis
We’ve awarded 19 new research grants, investing more than £5m to help people avoid cancer and live better and longer after a diagnosis
The importance of pilot and feasibility studies
Researchers use these studies to identify and explore potential challenges before a main trial begins
More breast cancer research
Adherence to Mediterranean diet and risk of esophageal, gastric, pancreas, lung and breast cancer
Piet van den Brandt’s research concluded that eating a Mediterranean diet may reduce the risk of lung, postmenopausal breast, oesophagus (squamous cell carcinoma in men), and stomach cancers
Body mass index in childhood and risk of pre-menopausal breast cancer
The study aims to determine whether a larger body size in childhood protects against a risk of pre-menopausal breast cancer.
Identification of metabolic signatures related to stress and breast cancer risk and survival
This study examines the associations between self-reported stress and breast cancer risk and survival, and then identify novel blood markers of stress