Cancer Research Matters – Stigma, hope and TRACERx

The first series focusses on the 20^th anniversary of CRUK – we’ll be winding back the clock on some of the great discoveries and breakthroughs made in the past two decades and asking some leading names where they think we’ll be in another 20 years.

This episode features Professor Charles Swanton. Charlie is Cancer Research UK’s Chief Clinician and his lab at the Francis Crick Institute studies lung cancer tumour heterogeneity and maps the evolutionary pathways at work as cancers evolve and change.

He talks about the profound changes in the way the research community thinks about lung cancer, the power of the translational mind-set and delves into the flagship project, TRACERx.

He also talks briefly about his lab’s growing interest in the mechanistic links between air pollution and lung cancer in never smokers.

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