University of Cambridge launches UK’s first Early Cancer Institute

The UK’s first institute dedicated to studying and detecting cancers at the earliest stage has been launched.

 

Scientists at the Early Cancer Institute will focus on hard-to-treat cancers such as pancreas and lung.

 

Rebecca Fitzgerald, director of the institute, said the research was essential to improve survival rates in patients, adding “Outcomes can be transformed if the cancer is diagnosed early enough and we have the right treatments”.

 

The ECI is based at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, alongside medical, pharmaceutical and academic specialists.  It is home to two world-renowned research hospitals, Royal Papworth and Addenbrooke’s, as well as the Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

 

Up to 120 scientists will be based at the institute, the UK’s first physical centre devoted to finding and researching early cancers.

 

Professor Fitzgerald added “Most patients are still diagnosed late.  People have tended to shy away from researching early cancer, but unless we do this work, we are not going to improve survival rates for the majority of our patients.”

 

A £20m fundraising campaign to upgrade the institute’s facilities and recruit more newly qualified researchers has also begun.

 

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