Cancer: Divide and conquer—Winter Series Lecture recorded

Tuesday 15 July 2014 9:08am

A recording from the Winter Lecture Series Cancer: Divide and conquer by Professor Parry Guilford, is now available.

Professor Parry Guilford, Director of CTCR, presented Cancer: Divide and conquer as part of the University of Otago Winter Lecture Series, on both 9 and 10 July 2014, in Wellington and Auckland respectively.

Professor Guilford described how cancer behaves as a disease, and the new genomic technologies that are beginning to transform the treatment of cancer.
Material includes:

Cancer is ubiquitous and age-old
Causes of cancer
What are the differences between cancer cells and normal cells
What mechanisms (signalling pathways) enable cancer cells
How can a benign growth become cancerous, and invasive, and in what sort of timeframe
Why cancer is so hard to beat, but what we know now (tumour clonality)
The value of your genetic profile in determining best treatment (personalised medicine)
Cancer survivorship trends
New directions for treatment; what diagnostic tools and approaches are most promising

This lecture was one of a series of free public lectures to hear leading Otago thinkers.

Cancer: Divide and conquer watch it on YouTube (lecture 35 mins, plus question time of 12 mins)