Therapies – More effective treatments Archives - Page 3 of 3

How the body’s natural defences could be harnessed to design more effective treatments and ultimately a vaccine against breast cancer.

Research projects that are associated with our research theme of Therapies are shown below:

Preventing Metastatic Disease by Targeting Cells that Survive Chemotherapy

Prof Ingunn Holen and Dr Lewis Quayle, University of Sheffield

Prof Ingunn Holen and Dr Lewis Quayle aim to further understand how breast cancer cells survive chemotherapy treatment by entering a dormant state and hope to target them in order to prevent secondary tumour regrowth.

DietCompLyf Biobank

Dr Miriam Dwek, University of Westminster

As part of our DietCompLyf study biological samples of blood and urine were collected to form a biobank that will be used in ABC Discover 2.