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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

View publications that have resulted from the ongoing and completed research projects that have been funded by Breast Cancer Campaign

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 Republic of 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 105 projects worth over £12.8 million in 50 locations throughout the UK. Over the past 12 years, Campaign has awarded 212 grants with a total value of over £21 million to universities, medical schools / teaching hospitals and research institutes across the UK.

What has Breast Cancer Campaign achieved?
Read about some of Campaign's achievements and latest research news in the February/May 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:

• Mechanisms of disease: to discover more about the basic biology of breast cancer, to learn more about how breast cancer actually forms
• 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.
• Treatment: to determine new ways of treating breast cancer and to improve our current drug therapies.
• Metastasis & angiogenesis: to ascertain more about how cancer grows and survives in the body, and how it then spreads around the body
• Prevention: to know more about the relationships between diet, environmental and lifestyle choices and breast cancer
• Diagnosis: to help develop new, quicker, more accurate and cost-effective ways of discovering breast cancer
• Pschological: to better understand the impact that breast cancer has on people's lives and how they can best be supported