Almost £6million of funding has been awarded to doctors and scientists in the region to boost research into life-saving cancer treatments and services. Research to improve early diagnosis for gastric cancers and the development of secondary care breast services will be among the work funded by the grants from Cancer Research UK. Much of the funding will go to the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Centre. Dr Massimiliano di Pietro, a clinician scientist from the Early Cancer Institute at the University of Cambridge and consultant gastroenterologist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Tr…