Thomas Helleday on Cancer

For the Inaugural Radcliffe Lecture 2014 Professor Hugh Watkins explores the success and limitations of genome sequencing in simple Mendelian diseases and in complex disorders, against the backdrop of his ground breaking research into heart disease. The Radcliffe Lecture series p ...  Show more

Professor Irene Tracey talks about her research into pain through using brain imaging technology to see exactly how the brain is affected by pain while discussing its implications to how we understand pain in society. 

Professor Vincenzo Cerundolo tells us how research in immunology leads to the development of new cancer treatments. Immunotherapy stimulates the body's immune system, and can be a powerful treatment for cancer. The most efficient prophylactic cancer vaccine today is the vaccine a ...  Show more

When we think about medicine’s war on cancer, treatments such as surgery, radiation and chemotherapy spring to mind first. Now there is another potential weapon for defeating tumors: statistics and mathematical models that can optimize the selection, combination or timing of t ...

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"At this point, the World Health Organization considers 13 different types of cancer as obesity-related cancers, which is huge because from 2003, we ...

La recherche en cancérologie a fortement progressé ses dernières années, grâce notamment à une meilleure compréhension des mécanismes à l’origine de la maladie. Un diagnostic précoce et une meilleure prise en charge permettent aussi de mieux soigner la population. Mais le vieilli ...  Show more