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\n 21 April 2020\n \n
\n \n\n \n \nWorking from home is a lonely business, so the chance to meet and engage people with our science was too good to pass up.\r\nSchools and work places are not the only places that have to operate remotely. Across the UK clubs, societies and groups are using the internet to keep their interests alive.
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\n \n \nFor prostate cancer awareness month, we focus on the work of Dr Valentine Macaulay.
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\n \n \nFor Brain Tumour Awareness Month, Vanessa Johanssen talks about her work and how their research has helped to find brain tumours when they're small enough to treat.
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\n \n \nLast April we joined forces with Corpus Christi College and visited Crewe to talk to students there about the impact of maths in materials and cancer research. We met Sarah Stubington and discovered that a shared love of science can create common ground. Sarah shared her perspective of our meeting.
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\n \n \nWhen Pratik Samant was in secondary school, he had two great loves: physics and medicine, in that order. It seemed to him at the time, that these were polar opposites. When Pratik chose to study physics, that meant leaving medicine behind, of course, they\u2019re different fields! That was 6 years ago, Pratik now reflects that would surprise his younger self to learn that in 2020, he would work in a hospital.
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\n \n \nOn the 11th of February 2020, we celebrate the fifth International Day of Women and Girls in Science as recognised and implemented by the United Nations General Assembly. This day aims to raise awareness of the biases and gender stereotypes that deter women and girls from STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) related fields, as well as promote equal access to and participation in STEM education and professions for girls and women.\r\nI reached out to fellow students in the Department of Oncology for their views on women and girls in STEM and for them to spotlight a woman in science who has influenced them.
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\n \n \nCancer science amidst the oceans \u2013 how could we possibly fit our work into the theme of Oceans?
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\n \n \nOn 8 November, OCTO Trial Management Director Sarah Pearson and Trial Manager Naomi McGregor joined children from Dr South\u2019s primary school to explore some aspects of the work carried out by the Oncology department during the school\u2019s science week earlier this month.
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\n \n \nThe bacteria that inhabit our gut \u2013 the gut microbiome - could have profound impact on our health. The species that live in our guts influence the development of neurodegenerative disease (Alzheimer disease, Parkinson\u2019s disease), epilepsy, autoimmune disease, and cancer.4 They may also be helping shape whether our treatments work.
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\n \n \nOn World Cancer Research Day, Sylvana talks about research into colorectal cancer, one of the most common cancers in the world.
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