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What is cancer? How does it develop and spread? What are scientists at the Crick doing to better understand cancer? And how are these discoveries being used to transform cancer treatments?
These are some of the questions you can explore in this online exhibit.
Discover the latest cancer research and innovative new treatments with Crick scientists and people whose lives are affected by cancer. Across four themed sections, you can hear Crick researchers, biotech scientists, and people living with cancer discuss this complex, feared and sometimes misunderstood disease.
This online exhibit accompanies Outwitting Cancer, an in-person exhibition exploring cancer research which opened at the Crick on 25 September 2021.
Chapter 1
Chapter 1: What is cancer?
Cancer develops when abnormal cells in the body begin to divide uncontrollably.
Learn what cancer is →Read on
Chapter 2: Understanding cancer
There are over 200 types of cancer and a wide variety of causes. Causes can be genetic, lifestyle-related, or down to other external factors.
Chapter 3: Reasons for hope
The last 20 years have seen tremendous advances in cancer treatments. What does the future of cancer treatment look like?
Chapter 4: Conversations about cancer
Our patient advisory panel talk frankly and honestly about their experiences of cancer, and Crick researchers reflect on the rewards and motivations of their work.
Hear from our advisory panel
Outwitting Cancer was developed in partnership with a panel of people with lived experience of cancer. For World Cancer Day 2022, three of our panel members looked back at the experience.