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Stem cells and human cancer: Turning biology into treatments

Norman Maitland

  • 26 September 2014
    7pm - 8.30pm

  • Memorial Hall, St Peter's School (map)

  • FREE admission
    Booking required. To reserve tickets please email: events@stpetersyork.org.uk or phone 01904 527300.

  • Wheelchair accessible

Event details

In his lecture, Professor Maitland will describe his ground-breaking research on cancer stem cells.  There is fewer than one cancer stem cell for every thousand cells in a tumour, but it is the stem cell component which is probably responsible for not only the spread of cancers around the body, but also for tumour relapse after treatment.  

The YCR Cancer Research Unit at the University of York, which Professor Maitland directs, has pioneered the study of these cells, and is developing drugs to eliminate the stem cell components in human prostate cancer, now the most commonly diagnosed tumour in men.