About Us

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research carry out ground-breaking work on the latest cancer treatments and technologies. Together the two organisations form the only National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR BRC) dedicated specifically to cancer.

At the BRC we support cancer research by bringing together academics and healthcare professionals to take lab-based, scientific breakthroughs and turn them into potential treatments and medical technologies. Thus, we turn research into new treatments and technologies quickly available to patients.   

Our goal is to ensure that more people are cured with new and kinder treatments. These treatments reduce immediate and long-term side effects and allow patients to live well with and beyond cancer.

We aim to:

-  Prevent cancers from developing by identifying people most at risk of the disease
-  Detect cancer earlier and more accurately to make cure more possible
-  Deal with the complexity and unpredictable nature of cancer most effectively 
-  Deal with cancers that are able to adapt and evolve within the patient and in response to treatment

Involving patients, carers and the public in the research we do is very important. By working together, we can identify the issues that are most important and relevant to those directly affected by cancer and its treatments. 

See how you could add your voice to the future of cancer research here.