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Polygenic risk prediction: The clinical significance

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Paul Pharoah
University of Cambridge, UK


Unexplained familial breast cancer risk – how can we find the missing genes?

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Julian Peto
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK


Interrogating regulatory networks to elucidate drivers of tumourigenesis, progression, and drug sensitivity

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Andrea Califano
Columbia University, New York, USA


Recent advances in breast, cervix and oral cancer early detection and prevention in low and middle income countries

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Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan
International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France


Cancer Control for India and Developing World

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Rajendra Badwe
Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India


Oncology drug development in 2012 – Challenges and opportunities of stratified patient populations

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Susan Galbraith
AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, UK


Translating pre-clinical hypotheses into the clinic – a tale of two kinases

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Nigel Brooks
AstraZeneca, Macclesfield, UK


Developing novel anti-cancer therapies: Promises and challenges

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Jeff Evans
The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Glasgow & NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Glasgow, UK


Delivering on the promise of personalised medicine.

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Gordon Mills
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA


Targeting cancer cells and promoting the immune effectors: From models to the clinic

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Adrian Hayday
King's College London, UK


Live imaging of the earliest inflammatory response to transformed cells within tissues – studies in zebrafish

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Paul Martin
University of Bristol, UK


Peptide antigen characterization for clinical immunotherapy studies

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Hans-Georg Rammensee
University of Tübingen, Germany


PD-1 and LAG-3 in Cancer Immunotherapy

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Charles Drake
Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, USA


Understanding cancer as a microevolutionary process

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Gerard Evans
University of Cambridge, UK


Recent insights into the tempo and mode of somatic evolution

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Carlo Maley
The University of California, San Francisco, USA


Evolutionary complexity in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia

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Mel Greaves
The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK


Evolution of cancer genomes

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Peter Campbell
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK


Improvements in palliative and supportive care: recent advances

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Irene Higginson
Cicely Saunders Institute, King’s College London, UK


Advances, challenges and opportunities in symptom management in older patients with cancer

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Deborah Dudgeon
Queen's University, Ontario, Canada


Recent advances in developing a national end of life care register

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Carl Johan Fürst
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden


Recent advances in the detection and management of psychological distress and depression in cancer and palliative care

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Mari Lloyd-Williams
University of Liverpool, UK


Lung cancer – state of the art and science

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Fergus Macbeth
Wales Cancer Trials Unit, Cardiff, UK


The application of translational science in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC):  Successes, failures and pitfalls 

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Frances Shepherd
University of Toronto and Princess Margaret Hospital, Ontario, Canada


Lung Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR): The state of the art

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Kevin Franks
St James's Institute of Oncology, Leeds, UK


Radical radiotherapy for locally advanced NSCLC – Current research and controversies

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Corinne Faivre-Finn
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK


Tumour- environment interactions

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Margaret Frame
Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre, UK


Tumour-stroma interactions in breast cancer metastasis

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Clare Isacke
The Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK


Prognostic, predictive and therapeutic potential of PDGFR-positive cancer-associated fibroblasts

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Arne Östman
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden


Intravital microscopy of tumour cells and their microenvironment through imaging windows

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Jacco van Rheenen
Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands


Where next with genome-wide association studies?

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Bruce Ponder
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, UK

Audit of cisplatin-topotecan use in palliative cervical cancer 2008-2011

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Kirsty MacLennan1, Mark Zahra1
1Edinburgh Cancer Centre, Edinburgh, UK

Chronic increase in mast cell numbers in human skin after radiotherapy for breast cancer

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Charlotte Westbury1, Alex Freeman3, Leonid Nikitenko1, Ann Pearson2, Mohammed Rashid1, John Yarnold2, Susan Short1
1UCL Cancer Institute, University College London, London, UK, 2Division of Radiotherapy and Imaging, The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, 3Department of Histopathology, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Initial experience of dynamic contrast enhance magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) to assess therapeutic response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy and radical radiotherapy in bladder preservation for muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC)

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Carmel Anandadas1, Thomas Westwood1, Richard Cowan1, Jeanette Lyons1, Suzanne Bonington1, Bernadette Carrington1, Ananya Choudhury1, Stephanie Donaldson1
1The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK

CXCL12 predicts relapse in stage I Non-Seminomatous Germ Cell Tumours (NSGCT); results from the MRC TE08 and TE22 clinical trials.

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Duncan Gilbert1,2, Khin Thway2, Ian Chandler3, Reem Al-Saadi2, Sally Stenning4, Rhian Gabe4, Robert Huddart5,2, Janet Shipley2
1Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, Sussex, UK, 2The Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, Surrey, UK, 3Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, Devon, UK, 4Medical Research Council, London, UK, 5Royal Marsden Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, Surrey, UK

Is tumour volume a predictive factor for survival in patients after accelerated radiotherapy (CHART) or chemoradiotherapy for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)?

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Waheeda Owadally1, Emma Gray1, Peter Jenkins1
1Gloucestershire Oncology Centre, Cheltenham General Hospital, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK

Validation of a novel diagnostic standard in HPV positive Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

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Andrew Schache1, Triantafilos Liloglou1, Janet Risk1, Terence Jones1, Xiao-Jun Ma3, Hongwei Wang3, Son Bui3, Yuling Luo3, Philip Sloan2, Richard Shaw1, Max Robinson2
1University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, 2Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK, 3Advanced Cell Diagnostics, Hayward, CA, USA

Investigating the Functional Effects of Oncogenic FGFR2 Mutations in Endometrial Cancer

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Abbie Fearon1, Pedro Cutillas1, Richard Grose1
1Barts Cancer Institute, London, UK

HELQ helicase, a novel DNA crosslink repair protein with links to the RAD51 paralog BCDX2 complex

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Rafal Lolo1, Carrie Adelman1, Simon Boulton1
1London Research Institute, London, UK

PIK3CA Mutation is Strongly Associated with K-ras 12/13 Mutation in Stage II/III Colorectal Cancer

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Katie Southward1, Morag Taylor1, Phil Chambers1, Kelly Handley2, Laura Magill2, Claire Beaumont1, Susan Richman1, Matt Seymour3, David Kerr4, Richard Gray4, Phil Quirke1
1Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, Leeds, UK, 2Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit, Birmingham, UK, 3CRUK Cancer Centre, Leeds, UK, 4University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

The histone deacetylase inhibitor vorinostat (SAHA) down-regulates c-FLIP and sensitizes human non-small cell lung carcinoma cell lines to ionising radiation

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Kylie McLaughlin1, Izabela Stasik1, Kevin Prise1, Patrick Johnston1, Daniel Longley1
1Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK

Colorectal tumour microRNAs – novel biomarkers of tumour progression and treatment response?

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Edward Amankwatia1, Francis Carey1, Robert Steele1, Alastair Munro1, Roland Wolf1, Gillian Smith1
1University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

Propagation of epithelial polarity through mitosis

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Graham Bell1,2, Barry Thompson1
1Cancer Research UK, London, UK, 2University College London, London, UK

RASSF1A loss deregulates hippo pathway signalling in tumourigenesis.

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Angelos Papaspyropoulos1, Louise van der Weyden1, George Poulogiannis1, David Adams1, Eric O'Neill1
1University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Identification of 14-3-3 as a Novel Regulator of the Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Pathway

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Shiri Dovrat1, Alona Zilberberg1, Rina Rosin-Arbesfeld1
1Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel

Phenotypic heterogeneity in small cell lung cancer cells.

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Suzanne Meredith1, Jennifer Bryant1,3, Muhammad Babur3, Kaye Williams3, Anne White1,2
1Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 2Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 3Pharmacy and Pharmceutical Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK


Cancer in low and middle income countries – an increasing threat to development

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Ian Magrath
International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research (INCTR), Brussels, Belgium


Descriptive epidemiology of cancer in developing countries and its importance to cancer control

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D. Maxwell Parkin
Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford & Cancer Registry Programme, International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research, Oxford, UK

Liver stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for treatment refractory metastatic liver disease

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Katharine Aitken1, Irena Blasiak-Wal1, Maria Hawkins1
1Department of Radiotherapy, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, Surrey, UK

Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) with concurrent chemotherapy for Anal Cancer – Retrospective study evaluating toxicity profile and response rates

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Imran Petkar1, Young Lee1, Corrinne Brooks1, Diana Tait1, Maria Hawkins1
1Royal Marsden Hospital, Sutton, UK

A single centre randomised dosimetric study assessing the use of on-treatment cone beam CT (CBCT) scans for adaptive radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer (HNCa)

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Sindu Vivekanandan1, Daniel Emmens1, Ros Perry1, Christopher Scrase1
1Ipswich Hospital, Suffolk, UK