Name: Personalising Cancer Treatment
Start: 2015-05-18T
End: 2015-05-18T
Location: The Jekyll and Hyde

An exciting new approach to cancer therapy is to match patients with the treatment that will work best for them, by understanding the underlying genetic mistakes.

From lab bench…

Dr Chris Tselepis

Research at the laboratory bench has allowed us to understand how changes in our DNA can lead to cancer. By understanding the gene faults that underpin a patient’s cancer, scientists can move towards developing personalised treatments that can be accurately matched to patients. Dr Chris Tselepis will introduce what cancer is in an easy to understand manner, and explain how discoveries at the lab bench play such a vital role in our understanding of cancer and to developing the cancer treatments.

…To patient’s bedside

Professor Pam Kearns

Clinical trials are vital for improving cancer treatments – they’re the only way new treatments make it to patients. Prof Pam Kearns will discuss the clinical trial process for cancer treatments, with examples of current personalised medicine trials being led in Birmingham. Prof Kearns will discuss some of the challenges of these tailored medicine trials, as well as highlighting the exciting promises that trials offer for improving the survival and quality of life for patients in the future.

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