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The war on cancer

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Past event - 2018
14 May Doors 7pm
Event 7.30-9.15pm
The Fulford Arms, 121 Fulford Rd,
York YO10 4EX
As we continue the war on cancer, it is important that we attack from all angles. Come and hear more about the cutting edge of cancer research that takes place local to you. Tonight we showcase two different avenues of research at the University of York, discussing the biology that underpins cancer and whether screening can cause more harm than good.

Life in urine; bladder self-defences and how they can help us kill cancers.

Simon Baker (Senior Research Associate, Jack Birch Unit for Molecular Carcinogenesis)
The bladder spends your whole life full of concentrated toxins and has many ways to defend itself. Some of the enzymes normal cells use to process toxins can also be hijacked by cancers to protect themselves. New research funded by York Against Cancer is looking at whether the different ways these enzymes are used by cancer cells gives us a new approach to kill them. This year researchers in York have found that a particular type of bladder cancer might be most susceptible to this type of therapy and hope to move on to further trials.

What’s going on in your prostate gland – and does it help to know?

Steven Oliver (Senior Lecturer in Population Health, University of York)
For men in a pub (or the men in your life) I’ll do my best to make sense of the vexed question of testing for prostate cancer. Drawing on my work in the largest research study ever done on screening for this disease: I’ll explain why early detection of disease may not always be a good thing; what we’ve found out about the balance of harms and benefits of screening and what we still need to know.
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