Cancer
How can we deliver more accurate cancer care? How can surgery heal more and hurt less? How can we bring new treatments to patients faster? How can genetics change cancer treatments?
We have to get a grip on cancer, which kills over seven million people worldwide every year. New treatments still take too long to reach patients: an average of 15 years from bench to bedside.
One significant way to speed things up is with more clinical trials. King’s Health Partners is doing exactly that. We will unite all our cancer specialists in Europe’s largest health school, and focus our pioneering research and clinical techniques on the largest and most diverse patient population in the world.
Our Integrated Cancer Centre combines groundbreaking research with first-class clinical care. Here, where the structure of DNA was first photographed, we’re using our greater understanding of the human genome to create a new generation of treatments for individual cancer patients. Through this campaign we will invest in our five priority areas:
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Institute of Experimental Oncology. Personalised treatments to match each patient's own specific disease and genetic profile through a major experimental oncology programme.
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New techniques to improve diagnosis. We will research the variations between specific cancers, giving clinicians vital knowledge about the best methods with which to treat them.
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New surgical techniques. Improving surgery through research, and through joint development and trialling of new hardware.
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Novel therapies for tumour types. Establishing new programmes of research with new researchers and facilities in a range of cancers where we have internationally recognised expertise: breast, head and neck, haemato-oncology (cancers of the blood cells), prostate, skin and lung.
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Technology to fight cancer. We will invest in a raft of new technologies to give our leading programmes the latest tools to increase the pace of their research.
Interview with Professors Arnie Purushotham and Peter Parker from the ICC
Integrated Cancer Centre website
King's Health Partners website