What are rare cancers and how are they treated?
Professor Bernadette Brennan, Consultant Paediatric Oncologist, tells us what rare childhood cancers are and how they are treated.
What happens when doctors find it difficult to diagnose a child’s cancer?
Dr Ren Manias, Consultant Paediatric Oncologist at Southampton General Hospital, explains what happens and why when doctors find it difficult to diagnose a child’s cancer.
60 seconds with Dr Madhumita Dandapani
60 seconds with Dr Madhumita Dandapani Consultant Paediatric Oncologist at Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham
Using super-fit immune cells to seek and destroy bone cancer
At the Fisher Lab at UCL, we are trying to find a better treatment that specifically attacks osteosarcoma cells, to better fight cancer and reduce the burden of side effects. We think that immunotherapy could be the right treatment because it trains cells from the immune system, called T Cells, to fight cancer and has been very successful in other cancers.