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World Cancer Day 2020

4 February 2020

Tuesday 4 Feb 2020 is World Cancer Day (https://www.worldcancerday.org/). Led by the Union for International Cancer Control, the day aims to raise awareness and education about cancer.

The Department of Oncology teamed-up with The Oxford Maggie’s Centre to mark the day with a ‘Science on the Sofa’ chat about Immunotherapy.

We met a group of health professionals and patients from the Churchill Hospital to talk about the science behind immunotherapy and explore how the Department of Oncology is contributing to making immunotherapy more effective and deliver on the promise of this amazing new science.

It was a real privilege meet people who have cancer and the people who treat and support them. The Maggie’s Centre is a beautiful place with all of the comforting calm of the treehouse it closely resembles.

Thank you Claire Marriot for helping create this opportunity.

The Howat Foundation to fund Chair in Clinical Oncology

Oxford Cancer announce the endowment of a Chair in Clinical Oncology, thanks to generous philanthropic support from The Howat Foundation

New Oxford and Nottingham developed tool uses existing health records to predict people’s risk of developing lung cancer within the next 10 years

A team of researchers from the University of Oxford and the University of Nottingham have developed a new tool, called ‘CanPredict’, aimed at identifying the people most at risk of developing lung cancer over the next 10 years, and put them forward for screening tests earlier, saving time, money and, most importantly, lives.

Scientists find genetic ‘marker’ linked to serious side-effects from skin cancer treatment

New research from the Fairfax Group has identified a genetic marker that could be used to predict a patient’s risk of developing serious side-effects when undergoing immunotherapy treatment for metastatic melanoma.

Tiffany Ma wins the inaugural BACR Student Impact Award 2022

Oxford gets £122m funding for healthcare research

Health and care research in Oxford is to receive £122 million in government funding over the next five years to improve diagnosis, treatment and care for NHS patients. The funding was awarded to the city’s two National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centres (BRC).

The Department represented at the European Radiation Research Society annual conference

Researchers from the Department of Oncology attend the prestigious European Radiation Research Society (ERRS) in annual conference in Catania, Italy to present their research in Radiation Oncology.