DNA damage is one of the foundational causes of cancer. But researchers have now found that deliberately causing DNA damage – by delivering additional treatments like radiotherapy – could improve the effectiveness of immunotherapy for some people with kidney cancer.

The ICR has offered heartfelt condolences to Dame Deborah James' family after the campaigner and podcaster very sadly died - Deborah had been living with bowel cancer for six years.

A new, free exhibition chronicling how science is transforming cancer care opens at the Science Museum in London today – featuring discoveries led by researchers at The Institute of Cancer Research, London.