Cancer Research receives increased backing from AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is to double its investment in Cancer Research UK's biomarker research programme, enabling the charity to process up to 30,000 biomarker assays a year for the next three years.

AstraZeneca is to double its investment in Cancer Research UK's biomarker research programme, enabling the charity to process up to 30,000 biomarker assays a year for the next three years.

The charity had originally only been able to process 14,000 assays.

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