Iron scientists launch of the new initiative of £ 6 million to find better ways to prevent cancer

Iron scientists launch of the new initiative of £ 6 million to find better ways to prevent cancer -

Scientists from the University of Queen help lead a new initiative of £ 6 million to find better ways to prevent cancer.

new initiative, led by Cancer Research UK with investments of the BUPA Foundation matching aims to support advanced research to find better ways to prevent cancer.

It is estimated that more than four out of ten cases of cancer could be prevented by lifestyle changes, such as not smoking, maintaining a healthy body weight, cut back on alcohol, healthy eating , staying active and staying safe in the sun.

Professor Frank Kee, who heads the UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health Research in Northern Ireland at Queen's University, was invited to join the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the prevention initiative of the new cancer Research UK / cancer Foundation Bupa.

Professor Kee, the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen's, said: "advance knowledge and change lives is at the heart of what we do at the University Queen. I am honored to be part of this initiative to do so. It is a tribute to the CRUK BUPA and a bold new initiative like this has been developed. It shows how key donors want to support the science of prevention and the value they place in the kind of collaborations between disciplines that are necessary for the fight against cancer. Capacity building in this area is essential if new discoveries are always translate into better outcomes for patients and the population. "

" I am delighted to have the opportunity to work with Professor Linda Bauld, the new Cancer Research UK Champion and prevention with the IAB, and I am delighted to see the fruits of this initiative in the coming years. "

Professor Kee also spoke of creativity in science in the last week of first event sandpit" for the new Cancer Research initiative UK / Bupa Foundation cancer prevention in Oxford.

quarry allowed early career researchers across the country from a variety of backgrounds to work with research users and stakeholders to generate new ideas that could lead to new interventions for cancer prevention.

Dr Helen Coleman, Cancer Research UK Fellow and professor at UKCRC Centre of Excellence to the Queen joined the "sandbox" as one of the mentors and facilitators for participants early career researchers was able to share her experience working within different disciplines to conduct new term prospects in the science of prevention.