Third of MPs call for £20m of funding for research on ‘forgotten’ breast cancer

A third of MPs have rallied behind a campaign to raise £20m for research into a “forgotten” form of breast cancer with no “specific” treatment.

Around 15 per cent of breast cancers are invasive lobular, making it the second most common form in the UK after ductal breast cancer.

However, despite proven differences between the two, there is no “specific” treatment for lobular breast cancer and it remains widely underresearched.

Invasive lobular breast cancer begins in the cells that line the lobules,