Prof Charles Swanton
UCL Cancer Institute & The Francis Crick Institute
Director, CRUK UCL Lung Cancer Centre
Rethinking Cancer | UCL Cancer Domain Symposium
Monday 13 May 2019
Cancer evolution: can we beat Nature?
Cancer remains one of the major causes of morbidity and premature death worldwide; one in two people in the UK born after 1960 will be diagnosed with some form of cancer during their lifetime. UCL has a proud track record in addressing the societal, technical, and health challenges of cancer and in exploring its underling biology.
This symposium, invited our broad community to assemble for the first time at scale to consider challenges and opportunities in cancer research, prevention and treatment, from biological, clinical, technical, economic and societal perspectives.