EARLY DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS NEWSLETTER Hi Voornaam,
We hope you had an enjoyable time at our early detection of cancer conference, held in London last month, we certainly did!
Over 500 researchers, clinicians, patients and industry representatives joined us for themed talks, keynote addresses, lively panel discussions, great debates and networking. This was our biggest early detection conference, both in terms of attendance and abstract submissions. The level of engagement from the audience with our sessions was incredible, and it was good to see many of you sharing your research on socials during the event.
Professor Peter Sasieni won the Don Listwin Award at the event, and we had opportunity to catch up with him to speak about his outstanding achievements in cancer early detection and prevention. Watch Peter’s award speech here.
During our three-day event, we saw conversations on a spectrum of topics from disparities in cancer detection and ways to ameliorate them to the expanding applications of data science and risk-prediction modelling in cancer early detection. We also hosted our first patient and public involvement panel with our fantastic representatives Richard Stephens, Angela King and Jamil Rivers. Read on to discover how you can benefit from their insight and advice.
Our next meeting will be hosted by Stanford University on 22-24 October 2024, so please put the date in your diary!
In the meantime, discover below how you can feed into our Cancer Data Driven Detection initiative.
Kind regards,
David Crosby
Head of Prevention and Early Detection Research
Cancer Research UK |
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PETER SASIENI WINS DON LISTWIN AWARD Congratulations to Professor Peter Sasieni who won the Don Listwin Award at the early detection of cancer conference last month.
Fresh from his award presentation, we spoke to Peter about his work on HPV vaccination, equitable access to early detection and realising the promise of MCED tests. |
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LET’S KEEP THE CONVERSATION GOING WITH PATIENTS AND THE PUBLIC Did you attend our patient and public involvement panel session at the early detection conference?
Our patient representatives, created a Q&A resource based on all the questions received during the session. The document includes tips on how to involve patients, carers, and the public in research, and suggestions on where to start. |
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 EVALUATION OF MULTI-CANCER EARLY DETECTION TEST Researchers at the University of York have been commissioned by NHS England to evaluate the potential of rolling out a new multi-cancer early detection blood test across the UK.
They will provide an independent assessment of the benefits and risks of any future use of the test as a national screening programme.
The test’s capability as a screening tool in asymptomatic people is currently being assessed in the NHS-Galleri Trial, which involves 140,000 participants across England. |
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|  HELP US SHAPE OUR CANCER DATA DRIVEN DETECTION INITIATIVE We are looking for help to identify cancer-specific epidemiological/multi-omic datasets that can form part of our Cancer Data Driven Detection initiative (CD3).
If you lead a UK-based study that focuses on collecting cancer-related risk factor information or outcomes, we want to hear from you. |
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“FALLING INTO CANCER RESEARCH WAS QUITE ACCIDENTAL” Neil Hunt is a physical chemist who leads a team at the University of York exploring infrared spectroscopy in liquid biopsies.
Peter Weightman is a physics professor who’s developing a prototype device to predict prognosis based on machine learning with a multi-disciplinary team at the University of Liverpool.
We found how they are both applying lessons from non-cancer fields to detecting cancer earlier. |
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 COMING SOON – OUR NEW PREVENTION RESEARCH CONFERENCE Next year, we’re holding a new conference in prevention research with the American Cancer Society on 25-27 June in Boston. We’ll bring together cancer prevention researchers from discovery biology through translational and behavioural science to population and implementation research.
John Burn from Newcastle University, Tim Rebbeck from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Thea Tlsty from the University of California San Francisco are shaping the programme to share the latest thinking, results, and address opportunities within the field.
Follow along #PrevConf24 on our socials for more updates to be the first to know when registration opens. |
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|  BIOLOGICAL INSIGHTS IN CANCER PREVENTION Walid Khaled and Sara Pensa are studying breast tumour initiation at the University of Cambridge. They have identified six putative targets for prevention therapies, and they are testing the efficacy of various compounds in preventing tumour development in mice for a pilot clinical trial.
Elise Rees is a postdoctoral scientist in Kwee Yong’s lab at UCL Cancer Institute. She’s investigating the role of NK cells in smouldering myeloma to optimise strategies to prevent multiple myeloma.
All three were recently funded through our Biology to Prevention award. They discuss how they are using the award to apply biological insights to prevention research. |
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 APPLY FOR FUNDING AWARD FOR CANCERS THAT AFFECT 0-24 YEAR OLDS The Data for Children's and Young People's Cancer Research Pilot Award offers up to £250k to support data-driven research to develop new and scalable data solutions to common challenges in children's and young people's cancers.
Applicants may be at any point in their career, from early-career to established senior researchers, and applications close soon on 5 December 2023. |
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|  FAIRIFY YOUR RESEARCH WITH NEW DATA WEBINAR Join us at 1-2pm on Monday, 27 November for the next edition of our new webinar series on all things research data. This time we'll be covering how to ensure your data is findable, accessible, interoperable and reproducible (FAIR).
Hear academic and commercial perspectives on what’s needed to make a dataset useful to others, as well as insights from experts in data sharing tools and platforms.
You’ll also have the chance to ask your questions about what it means to apply the FAIR principles in practice. |
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