How Cancer Research UK is pushing the limits of how to tackle cancer

Research into the best ways to prevent, diagnose and treat the disease has never been more vital. But it requires funding.

Around 33,300 people a year are diagnosed with cancer in Yorkshire and The Humber.* The same amount of people could fill Leeds’ First Direct Arena to capacity more than twice over.

Cancer Research UK's pioneering work across the UK, including right here in Yorkshire, benefits from the generosity of supporters leaving a gift to Cancer Research UK in their Will. In fact, legacy gifts fund a third of its research.

Dr Denis Alferez, a researcher funded by Cancer Research UK, said: “I am interested in understanding how triple negative breast cancer – the most aggressive type of breast cancer – develops and how it spreads to other organs. I am investigating several of the biological markers that allow this type of cancer to grow and spread to other organs.