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Institute of Genetics and Cancer

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Tag: colorectal cancer

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Why is tackling so-called cold colorectal cancers key to future treatments?

A new research project at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer aims to tackle the poor response of immune-cold colorectal cancers to immunotherapies. Immune-cold tumours are those which don’t trigger a strong immune response and therefore don’t respond well to these therapies. Dr Kevin Myant, who has been awarded a Discovery Programme Foundation Award of […]

24th September 2025 0

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Colon cancer prevention – My journey from aspirin to the nucleolus

By Professor Lesley Stark, Personal Chair of Nucleolar Signalling and Cancer Prevention at IGC Prevention is better than cure is certainly the case for cancer, and especially colorectal cancer. My journey into the prevention of colorectal cancer started in 1997 as a young postdoctoral scientist, under the wing of Malcolm Dunlop. The pathway I was […]

19th March 2025 0

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