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CCLG Research Talks: How does neuroblastoma genetics help us treat patients?

With Professor Deborah Tweddle

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We talk to Professor Deborah Tweddle about how understanding more about genetics has helped treatment for neuroblastoma.

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  • Find out how research has made a difference for patients 
     

Professor Deborah Tweddle

Deborah is a Professor of Paediatric Oncology at the University of Newcastle and an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric & Adolescent Oncology at the Great North Children’s Hospital Newcastle. She has been working in childhood cancer research for almost 30 years. She is also the director of the VIVO Biobank, a resource which stores most of the children’s and young people’s cancer samples in the UK. Her research mainly focuses on neuroblastoma, and she has worked on seven projects funded through CCLG.

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