Name: Understanding cancer
Start: 2016-05-23T
End: 2016-05-23T
Location: The Oxford Retreat

Come and hear Michael and Kezia discuss the latest research into cancer - its risk, development and treatment. Pint of Science pint glasses and tshirts to be won! (Please note: event located on the first floor, only accessible via stairs.)

Knowing your enemy: dissecting and targeting cancers

Dr Michael White (Clinical Research Training Fellow)

Michael will discuss tumour heterogeneity, single cell sequencing and developing targeted therapies against cancers.

Cancer: finding the risk factors

Dr Kezia Gaitskell (Clinical Research Training Fellow)

The media often says that something is 'a risk factor for cancer' - but what kind of scientific evidence is behind that? Using examples from my research on ovarian cancer, I will explain how we can use data from big population studies to work out risk factors for cancer. I will also discuss how a knowledge of risk factors for different types of cancers may be able to help us understand where and how they develop.

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