This week marks ten years since the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) and the Cancer Research Campaign (CRC) merged to form Cancer Research UK. Cancer research UK is now the world’s largest independent organisation dedicated to cancer research.

Over the past decade, it joined forces with scientists, doctors and nurses across the globe to make great progress in the fight against cancer, and this research has changed people’s lives. However, Cancer Research UK achievements haven’t just been restricted to research. Thanks to determined campaigning by its supporters, landmark smoke-free legislation was introduced in the UK in 2007. This is arguably the greatest public health achievement of the century, let alone the decade, and will save thousands of lives. 

Although Cancer Research UK are proud to be celebrating their tenth anniversary, in actual fact this organisation has a much greater heritage stretching back to the turn of the last century.

Read more about Cancer Research UK achievements and history on Cancer Research UK blog.