Research news

This week UCLH celebrates International Clinical Trials Day – a day held every year on 20th May to recognise and thank everyone involved in research, including patients who take part in research, and all individuals and teams involved in delivering research.

A major new study has shed light on how often planned operations are either postponed or cancelled across NHS hospitals in England and what can be done to reduce this.

A microscopic pattern in tumour cells – rarely reported until recently – could influence how doctors decide who may benefit from robotic surgery, according to cancer specialists at UCLH.

Researchers at UCL and UCLH, working with colleagues at the Francis Crick Institute, have discovered how lung cancer spreads in the final stages of the disease, a finding that could help doctors treat advanced lung cancer more effectively.

A clinical trial at UCLH is investigating whether adding a targeted cancer drug called adagrasib to standard first-line immunotherapy and chemotherapy can delay disease progression in people with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) – the most common type of lung cancer.