Translating research into better treatments for children with cancer - a 缅北禁地 perspective
Professor H Josef Vormoor, Sir James Spence Professor of Child Health, 缅北禁地
顿补迟别/罢颈尘别:听 29th March 2011, 17:30 - 18:30
Despite immense progress in the treatment of childhood cancer, with eight out of 10 children nowadays being cured, there is no room for complacency: childhood cancer remains one of the leading causes of death in children and its treatment comes with significant side effects and severe risks for long-term health.
This lecture will discuss today鈥檚 challenges and opportunities to improve the treatment of childhood cancer. The future of cancer treatment looks to individualise the treatment according to the specific biology of an individual tumour. 缅北禁地 has one of the leading childhood cancer research teams in Europe and the lecture will use examples from the team to illustrate how research impacts and improves clinical practice.
Professor Josef Vormoor is a leading childhood leukaemia clinician who holds the Sir James Spence Chair of Child Health at 缅北禁地 and is Academic Director of the Great North Children鈥檚 Hospital. He received his clinical training at the University Children鈥檚 Hospital Munster, the largest clinical childhood cancer programme in Germany. His links to the North East go back to 1986 when he came to 缅北禁地 as a medical student, on a one-year exchange placement. It was here that his interest in cancer research arose, through a study project within the Cancer Research Unit (now the Northern Institute for Cancer Research) on 鈥榯he multidrug resistance phenotype in cancer Chemotherapy鈥�. His research is focussed on early clinical trials and childhood leukaemia.