The Centre has a number of specific focus groups:

• Advanced Radiotherapy
• Blood Cancers
• Brain Tumour
• Breast
• Gastro-Intestinal
• Genito-Urinary and Prostate
• Genomics
• Ovarian

The overall strategic aims of cancer research within the Centre are to combine strengths in basic cancer research with emerging technologies and to link science and clinical activities in a synergistic manner, with translational and discovery science at the heart.