Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital

12/09/2025

"I am the matron for the Cancer Day Unit and a third generation nurse; my mother was a nurse, my grandmother was a nurse and my aunt is a nurse! I started when I was 15 at the nursing home, so I'm in my 25th year of working in healthcare."

Andrea Hunt, Matron of the Cancer Day Unit, discusses her passion for nursing and her hopes and aspirations for the new Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital.

Watch below👇and read more on our website: https://orlo.uk/S7Xtq

11/09/2025

Lisa Noble, a mum-of-five from Bishop Stortford, was 54, when she noticed a lump on her neck and was diagnosed with Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma (DLBCL).

She was referred by her doctor to Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for specialist CAR-T therapy, a type of personalised immunotherapy that works by re-engineering or “supercharging” a patient’s own immune system, training their own immune cells known as ‘T cells’, to fight and destroy the cancer. Addenbrooke’s became the first hospital to offer the specialist therapy for patients in the East of England.

Lisa was then in remission within three-months, describing it "as an amazing feeling,".


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10/09/2025

Come and support the future Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital at this Saturday's Cambridge Dragon Boat Festival 🐲 🐉

We're delighted that our project team, supported by colleagues working in Cancer services at Addenbrooke’s and our amazing Patient Advisory Group, will be taking part in the race again this year.

The event, now in its 19th year, takes place on the River Cam at Fen Ditton.

We will build a new specialist cancer hospital, that will detect cancer earlier, treat it more precisely and save more lives.

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09/09/2025

What do you know about Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital? Find out how we will change the story of cancer👇

08/09/2025

Hear from patients Helene and Beverly on how radiotherapy treatments have developed over the years, they introduce the Radiotherapy Timeline at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and discuss the important role patients and the public play in helping to shape the future of cancer care.

04/09/2025

"This is a landscape people have been using and living in for thousands of years, and Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital will be the latest chapter of the story."

Over the summer, preparatory groundworks and an archaeological dig have been taking place on the Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital site.

The archaeologists have unearthed evidence - largely pottery and animal remains - from a rural settlement dating back to the Iron Age and Roman period around two thousand years ago.

Watch Chris Wakefield, Archaeologist at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit, explain more about what has been found 👇🏼https://bit.ly/ccrharchdig

03/09/2025

Jake Andrade, from Stowmarket, was 13 years old when he was first diagnosed with a type of blood cancer.

His treatment took place on our Teenager Cancer Trust ward at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust which will move into the new Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital.

After hearing about the plans for the new hospital, Jake said: “It’s great that it will have all those cancer specialists in one place.

The fact that it was designed with the help of patients shows that its really putting patients first."

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02/09/2025

Come and join us at the Cambridge Dragon Boat Festival! Our official charity Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust - help make your hospitals even better are pledging all funds raised to support Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital !

The 19th Cambridge Dragon Boat Festival will take place on Saturday 13 September 2025 on the River Cam at Fen Ditton.

Have fun and watch the race! - https://orlo.uk/8kSaF

02/09/2025

We're pleased to share the news that Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald has been appointed as the new Head of the Department of Oncology at the University of Cambridge.

Rebecca officially takes up the role on 1st October 2025, for a period of five years.

Professor Fitzgerald will lead the Early Cancer Institute Research Clinic at Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital. She is currently Professor of Cancer Prevention and Director of the Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge Cancer Institute, and she also serves as an Honorary Consultant in Gastroenterology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

A passionate advocate for cancer prevention and early detection, Professor Fitzgerald has played a leading role in shaping cancer screening policy in the UK and Europe.

She commented: “I am thrilled to have been appointed the new Head of the Department of Oncology here at Cambridge. There is so much fantastic research already taking place in the Department for us to build on. I’m particularly looking forward to engaging with those of you are based in Oncology spaces outside of the ECI and to think about how we can increase collaboration and build our sense of departmental community.”

28/08/2025

Join us on Saturday 13 September for a day of fun on the water to raise money for Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital at the ACT Cambridge Dragon Boat Festival 2025.

Our Project Team will aim to make a big splash to ‘drum up’ further support for the East of England’s future cancer hospital. Please help us to change the story of the cancer: https://orlo.uk/hrgw7

27/08/2025

How will AI be used to screen and treat kidney cancer?

Listen to the new Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre podcast episode below, about how University of Cambridge researchers are exploring how it can speed up processes to save clinicians' time, and potentially detect the disease earlier.

🎧 New podcast episode! Listen to 'Integrated Cancer Medicine: Research in Focus - Using AI in the screening and treatment of kidney cancer' ➡️️ https://zurl.co/YFrsm

Have you ever wondered how artificial intelligence (AI) is used in research in a healthcare setting? Rebecca Wray and Bill McGough, two PhD students at the University of Cambridge, both use AI in different ways in their research into the screening and treatment of kidney cancer.

Rebecca is an MRes PhD student investigating the response and resistance to therapy in patients with kidney cancer. She uses AI to find tumour features at multiple scales. For his PhD, Bill is developing AI models that will sift through the mounds of imaging data produced during the Yorkshire Kidney Screening Trial (funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research), flagging images that show masses in the kidneys.

This interesting conversation gives insight into how researchers are using patient data safely in order for AI models to integrate all the information about a patient to help review their treatment and personalise it. The discussion also highlights how using AI in the screening setting is speeding up processes to help save clinicians' time and allowing the potential earlier detection of kidney cancer in a cost-effective manner.

21/08/2025

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