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2025 marks a significant year for Sara Williamson: it is 10 years since she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In December 2015, the then 46-year-old from Wakefield…

In 2013, Jonathan King from Knaresborough drove 3,500 miles across Europe in the name of life-saving cancer research in Yorkshire.Jonathan and his three friends –…

Yorkshire Cancer Research supporters took to the streets of Harrogate with a surprise flash-mob performance.

A groundbreaking cancer research hub in Yorkshire will receive £10 million in new funding to help transform the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

To mark Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, Yorkshire Cancer Research looks back at the work of Professor Norman Maitland FRSB, a pioneering researcher from the…

Significant inequalities in the treatment of women with ovarian cancer in England have been revealed in a study funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research and led by…

Kevin and Lynne Crowley are happily retired in Halifax, thanks to both of their cancers being diagnosed early.  The couple, who have been married for nearly 39…

When Lisa Sumpton laces up her trainers on the morning of this year’s London Marathon, she won’t be thinking about achieving a personal best or finishing in a…

89-year-old Marjorie Hodgson is the longest-serving Yorkshire Cancer Research volunteer. Since its foundation in 1968, Marjorie has been a member of the Bingley…

More than 1,000 hospital patients have now successfully quit smoking thanks to a stop smoking service funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research and delivered by Leeds…

As people across the region are urged to quit smoking for good this No Smoking Day (12 March), Yorkshire Cancer Research is highlighting the facts about vaping to…

Rob Oakley, a self-employed 35-year-old from Northallerton, had smoked since he was 12. Passionate about musical theatre, he knew quitting would improve his singing…