Workshops/CancerBiology

Crash Course in Cancer Biology

Who is this workshop for?

It'll be aimed at an intelligent lay audience. No background in biology will be assumed, but we'll still get to cover a decent amount of ground.

What will this workshop cover?

I'm a researcher not a clinician, so the focus would be on what cancer is, what causes it and how it evolves to survive in the body, how current detection technologies and treatments work (and their problems) and what new kinds of treatments are currently in the development pipeline e.g. personalised medicine, nanoparticles, gene therapy, etc.

If there's interest, it could also touch on risk factors and how to manage them, and prevention steps from personal screening to population-wide stuff like the controversy over the HPV / cervical cancer vaccine. It would NOT involve me making any diagnoses or commenting on specific cases, because I'm not a medic.

When will this workshop be?

At 19:30 on a popular date. Go to the Doodle poll to tell us which date is best for you: http://www.doodle.com/m685zup6p9hnfesv

There's something specific I want to hear about!

I'm not omniscient (yet) but if there's a specific aspect of cancer that you're interested in, contact me and I'll try to include it in the talk.

When contacting me, please note that I am NOT a medical doctor, and therefore cannot offer any advice on diagnoses or comment on specific cases.

I want to help!

If you have some relevent background in the field and want to give part of the talk, contact |Bugs

Slides

..will go up after the talk.