Name: Cancer: Personalising treatment
Start: 2018-05-15T
End: 2018-05-15T
Location: The Old George Inn

Personalised healthcare is set to be the next big revolution in medicine, especially for cancer treatment. Our speakers, experts in personalised cancer treatment, will talk you through why personalised medicine is so important, what information we need to personalised treatments and how this could revolutionise medicine in the next 5-10 years.

Understanding How Drugs Work and How Research Can Optimise the Treatment of Cancer Patients

Dr. David Jamieson (Research Associate)

Dr. Gareth Veal (Senior Lecturer)

Phil Berry (Senior Scientific Officer/Trials Analyst)

We will discuss what happens to drugs following administration, how individual patients exhibit important differences in the way that they respond to drugs and how we can use this information to optimise patient treatment. The talk will include a discussion of some of the latest tools for diagnosing cancer and quantifying drug action and patient response to current treatment.

Finding extra pieces of the pie- personalising cancer treatment in 2018

Dr Alistair Greystoke (Clinical Senior Lecturer/Hon Consultant, Newcastle University)

I will be talking about personalised therapy for cancer. Knowledge of the genetic defects that cause an individual person's cancer to grow and metastasise can now be used to individually target a patients tumour. I will discuss how we have developed drugs that work in this manner, how cancers can become resistant to these medicines and how in turn we are developing new drugs that target the resistance. I will look at how cancer medicine may change in the next 5-10 years.

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