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Cancer Biology & Biomedical Research
Understand what goes wrong when cells grow out of control, and how new treatments are developed.
What this field studies
Cancer is not one disease but many, each driven by changes in how cells grow and divide. Biomedical researchers study those changes and turn the findings into diagnostics and therapies, which are then tested carefully before reaching patients.
Questions researchers are asking
- Why can the same treatment work for one patient's cancer but not another's?
- What genetic changes allow a cell to keep dividing?
- How does the immune system recognise — or miss — cancer cells?
- How does a new therapy move from a lab idea to a clinical trial?
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