Our Scientific Yearbook showcases a broad range of our scientific activities through highlight articles, short reports and factual information about the charity as a whole. We also publish a geographical listing of the research supported by Cancer Research UK.

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Scientific Yearbook – full report

This contains all the pages from the Scientific Yearbook 2006/07. Please note that the PDF may take a few minutes to download if you have a slow connection.

Scientific Yearbook 2006/07 (2MB)

Scientific Yearbook – sections

All the individual articles in the Scientific Yearbook.

Preliminaries (353KB)
Front cover, list of key Cancer Research UK people and contents.

Making an impact – a year of progress and achievement (110KB)
Harpal Kumar, our Chief Executive, celebrates some of our key successes of 2006/07.

Why our work is needed – the latest cancer statistics (43KB)
An overview of trends in cancer incidence, with a focus on breast, lung, bowel and prostate cancers.

Our goals for 2020 (91KB)
Our new goals, which help to explain our vision and our role in beating cancer.

Campaigning and communicating (186KB)
How we are using our findings to promote change, raise awareness of cancer and provide support.

Developing the treatments of the future (140KB)
How we help to ensure advances in research benefit patients as quickly as possible.

Supporting a new generation (131KB)
A look at our training and fellowship schemes, which are helping to develop the next generation of cancer researchers.

Raising funds and awareness together (285KB)
How the combined efforts of our supporters meant that we were able to spend £315m on research this year.

Spending on research (118KB)
A map showing where we spent money on research in 2006/07.

Prevention and population-based research articles

Introduction (423KB)
Our support for research that will help to prevent cancer from developing in the first place.

Highlight article – Helping more people quit (74KB)
Professor Robert West describes his research on smoking cessation.

Short articles (94KB)
Featuring EPIC, breast cancer prevention in women at high risk, plant products that could help prevent cancer and a study of childhood obesity.

Basic research articles

Introduction (203KB)
Why we have an international reputation for excellence in basic cancer research.

Highlight article – Taking shape: new drug targets (138KB)
Professors David Barford and Laurence Pearl describe how structural biology can lead to new treatments for cancer.

Short articles (92KB)
Featuring TIGAR, PALB2, a protein called cohesin, and understanding the immune response.

Translational research articles

Introduction (203KB)
Creating opportunities for working collaboratively in order to beat cancer faster.

Highlight article – Science into medicine (90KB)
Professor Bruce Ponder on the new avenues of research taking shape at the new Cambridge Research Institute.

Short articles (93KB)
Featuring research using PET to look at tumours, drug resistance in bowel cancer, predicting mouth cancer and our work to rescue drugs from life on the shelf.

Clinical research articles

Introduction (247KB)
Turning our understanding of cancer into strategies for tackling the disease.

Highlight article – Supporting clinical research into lung cancer (78KB)
Dr Joanna Owens explains how we have helped to develop two new treatments for lung cancer.

Short articles (93KB)
Featuring clinical trials in Wales, research into bile duct cancer, making radiotherapy better and a promising new drug for prostate cancer.

Quality of life research articles

Introduction (335KB)
Our pioneering role in research focussing on the needs of people affected by cancer.

Highlight article – Psychosocial research: helping teams to deliver quality cancer care (137KB)
Professor Lesley Fallowfield describes work happening to improve cancer care and communication skills.

Short articles (82KB)
Featuring complementary therapy, digital decision making, perceptions of palliative care and a SMaRT approach to depression.

 

Funding streams (57KB)
The committees that assess the funding applications we receive.

How to find out more (274KB)
Information about our websites and how to contact us. Includes back cover.