• What we do
  • Funding research
    • Current grants
    • Completed grants
    • How you can help Campaign
    • Funding research in Ireland
    • New study
    • Dr Tracy Robson
  • Our achievements
    • Research issues
    • recent research success
    • Research publications
  • Our events
  • Research explained
  • Applying for a grant
    • Project grants
    • Pilot grants
    • PhD studentships
    • Scientific Fellowships
    • Scientific Advisory Board
      • Previous SAB members
    • Grant application statistics
  • Policy and campaigning
    • Our campaigns
      • Science for Life
        • Charity research support
      • Getting better care
        • Cancer Reform Strategy
        • Cancer Strategy in Scotland
      • Breast screening
    • Political support
      • Charity visits
    • General election
    • Charity research support fund

Research explained

Breast Cancer Campaign’s mission is to beat breast cancer by funding innovative world-class research to understand how breast cancer develops, leading to improved diagnosis, treatment, prevention and cure.

Download Breast Cancer Campaign's Research Strategy

How does Campaign decide which research to fund?
Campaign's Scientific Advisory Board, composed of prominent breast cancer experts coupled with the advice of hundreds of scientists and doctors, ensure that the research the charity funds is of the highest calibre and will further our knowledge of breast cancer.

Campaign only funds research into breast cancer and will support research at any centre of excellence in the UK and Ireland.

Read more about how we fund research, how to apply for a grant and view current grants or completed grants.

What is Breast Cancer Campaign doing now?
The charity is supporting 104 projects worth over £16.1 million in 38 centres of excellence across the UK and Ireland. Over the past 14 years, Campaign has awarded 302 grants with a total value of over £31 million to universities, medical schools/teaching hospitals and research institutes across the UK and Ireland. 

What has Campaign achieved?
Read about some of Campaign's achievements and latest research news in the current issue of focus magazine.

What areas of breast cancer do you research?
Campaign will fund research into any aspect of breast cancer and supports research across a wide range of areas:

• Prevention: to know more about the relationships between diet, environmental and lifestyle choices and breast cancer

• Genetics: to gain a greater understanding of the genetics of breast cancer, learning more about genes we already know are involved in breast cancer and to find new ones

• Breast cancer development: to discover more about the basic biology of breast cancer, to learn more about how breast cancer actually forms

• Growth and spread: to find out more about how cancer grows and survives in the body, as well as how it then spreads around the body
• Diagnosis: to help develop new, quicker, more accurate and cost-effective ways of discovering breast cancer

• Treatment: to determine new ways of treating breast cancer and to improve our current therapies

• Impact of breast cancer: to better understand the affect that breast cancer has on people's lives and how they can best be supported

• Education: training healthcare professionals to help them provide the best care and treatment possible for breast cancer patients

• Patient care: to understand what factors can affect how breast cancer patients are looked after and what treatments they will receive