Scientists have discovered that kidney cancer follows distinct evolutionary paths, enabling them to detect whether a tumour will be aggressive and revealing that the first seeds of kidney cancer are sown as early as childhood. These findings could enable doctors to...

WATCH THE CHANNEL 4 NEWS REPORT The most detailed study yet of a major cancer type has revealed that genetic damage can begin years, or even decades, before symptoms appear and diagnosis is possible. The study also suggests that many patients could avoid unnecessary...

Hundreds of people with kidney cancer could be spared surgery with a DNA test that can identify whether tumours are likely to be highly aggressive or relatively harmless, scientists say. The number of Britons diagnosed with the disease each year has nearly doubled...

A groundbreaking study has uncovered why some patients’ cancers are more deadly than others, despite appearing identical. Francis Crick Institute scientists developed a way of analysing a cancer’s history to predict its future. The study on kidney cancer...

Scientists studying kidney cancer have found that the first DNA damage eventually leading to cancer can occur as early as childhood, in some cases fifty years before diagnosis. In a trio of studies simultaneously published in the journal Cell, researchers have...

SEEDS of kidney cancer may be planted in childhood or adolescence, decades before the disease is diagnosed, scientists have learned. The common fault, caused by the botched repair of broken chromosomes, remains hidden and harmless in the majority of the population....

 BBC Radio 4 Six O’Clock featured an interview with Dr Samra Turajlic about the results of the major cancer study published in Cell.     BBC Six O'Clock News (from 21:46)...

TRACERx Renal investigator, Ben Challacombe, Consultant Urological Surgeon at Guy’s hospital performs robotic  resection of a small renal mass....