Locations

Breast cancer research activities are located across Manchester and the MBC acts as an umbrella organisation for both clinicians and non-clinicians specialising in this area. Collaboration is key to the success of the MBC and its research.

Since the amalgamation of the key breast research groups in Manchester in 2005, the MBC has continued to develop and expand. The centre is sited in several major research organisations in Manchester: 

• The Nightingale and Prevent Breast Cancer Centre at University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust
• The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
• Manchester Cancer Research Centre
• the Division of Cancer Sciences in the Faculty of Biological, Medical and Health Sciences at The University of Manchester
• St Mary’s Hospital at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Prevent Breast Cancer

The Nightingale and Prevent Breast Cancer Centre is a £2 million state of the art research and screening centre, based at University Hospital South Manchester (UHSM) in Wythenshawe. It is a world class facility leading the way in breast cancer early diagnosis, prediction and prevention research.

Europe’s first purpose built breast cancer prevention centre, it contains specially designed consultation, examination, counselling, mammography, radiology and ultrasound rooms. There are also rooms dedicated to pathology, prosthesis, lymphodema and bone densitometry. As well as this, it provides training facilities aimed at addressing the shortage of breast cancer specialists and houses many researchers looking at ways to predict and prevent breast cancer.