Tag: Cancer Research UK

Cancer Research UK encourage you to join the Race for Life at Home straight from your living room

Stuart Mitchell

With Race for Life events postponed until the Autumn, Cancer Research UK is encouraging the nation to keep active and united by signing up for Race for Life at Home, in partnership with Tesco. There are three ways supporters can take part, with options for everybody to get involved in their own way, donating to the cause where they can. From a family dance off in the garden, to a HIIT workout in the living room – there is no right or wrong way to do a Race for Life…

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Tesco launches Dance Beats fundraiser with three leading UK health charities

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has launched a major national fundraising campaign to support the life-changing work of its three national health charity partners – Cancer Research UK, the British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK. With cancer, heart and circulatory diseases and diabetes accounting for more than half of all deaths in the UK, Tesco has launched Dance Beats to support the life-changing work of its three national health charity partners – Cancer Research UK, the British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK Throughout June and July, Dance Beats will bring the nation together to…

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Cancer Research UK Survey Shows Beliefs in fake causes of cancer is rife

Stuart Mitchell

Mistaken belief in mythical causes of cancer is rife according to new research jointly funded by Cancer Research UK and published today in the European Journal of Cancer. Researchers at University College London (UCL) and the University of Leeds surveyed 1,330 people in England and found that more than 40% wrongly thought that stress (43%) and food additives (42%) caused cancer. A third incorrectly believed that electromagnetic frequencies (35%) and eating GM food (34%) were risk factors, while 19% thought microwave ovens and 15% said drinking from plastic bottles caused cancer…

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Two Global Cancer Leaders Announce Ambitious Strategic Alliance

Stuart Mitchell

Cancer Research UK, the world’s largest fundraising medical research charity, and the American Association for Cancer Research  (AACR), the world’s first and largest professional organization dedicated to advancing cancer research, are launching an ambitious new international alliance to speed the pace of progress against cancer. The overarching goal of the alliance is to stimulate leading-edge discoveries in cancer research that will ultimately help to save lives from this complex disease. Both the AACR and CRUK share the vision that significant progress against cancer could be facilitated by providing cancer researchers…

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Major research project launched to crack aspirin’s anti-cancer properties

Stuart Mitchell

Cancer Research UK launches an international study to answer the final questions before aspirin could be recommended to reduce cancer risk. Studies have estimated that widespread use of low-dose aspirin could lead to a 10% drop in the number of people dying from some cancers, but for every 17 lives saved by preventing cancer or heart attacks there would be 2 deaths* caused by strokes, bleeding or ulcers. While research has shown that taking aspirin for 10 years would have benefits for most people between the ages of 50 and…

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