Understanding science

9: Cancer: Causes, cures and costs

Seminar date: 4 October 2002

• Introduction
  Professor Sir Gabriel Horn FRS

Topic 1 Causes, Cures and Prevention

• Professor Ron Laskey FRS
  The antisocial cancer cell
• Professor Bruce Ponder FRS
  Cancer genetics
• Professor Sir Richard Peto FRS
  Cancer control strategies
• Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald
  Oesophageal cancer: from bench to bedside
• Professor Patrick Johnston FRCP
  Determinants of therapeutic outcome in cancer treatment. A new clinical paradigm

Topic 2 Economics and Ethics

• Professor Martin Buxton
  Cost-effectiveness of cancer interventions: prevention, screening or treatment
• Baroness Onora O'Neill CBE, FBA
  Individual privacy and public health: Cancer registries

The title of this document is: Understanding science: 9: Cancer: Causes, cures and costs
URL: http://www.cam.ac.uk/about/scienceseminars/cancer/

Seminar presented: 04/10/2002