Investment of £226 million to help UK to 'lead the world in fighting cancer'

Cancer Research UK (CRUK), the world’s leading charity researching the disease, has made its largest ever investment into its network of centers across the country.

Some £190 million ($237 million) has been committed to 13 CRUK centers over the next five years, while the charity and the UK’s Department of Health are investing a further £36 million into 18 Experimental Cancer Medicine Centers (ECMCs) for adult patients and also a network sites for children.

"This is particularly important for hard-to-treat cancers like pancreatic, oesophageal, lung and brain tumours"