Cancer Research UK on 06/22/2017 has launched the second phase of its global Grand Challenge by announcing eight new questions – identified as some of the biggest barriers to making progress against cancer – and inviting the world’s top scientists to come together with new proposals to tackle them.
- Devise approaches to prevent or treat cancer based on mechanisms that determine tissue specificity of some cancer genes
- Create novel tumour vaccinology approaches that establish or enhance successful immune responses beyond what is revealed by current checkpoint therapy
- Define mechanistic rules for combinatorial treatments to overcome resistance and avoid toxicity
- Distinguish between lethal cancers which need treating, and non-lethal cancers that don’t
- Identify and target tumour cells that remain dormant for many years after seemingly effective treatment
- Detect cancer earlier by interrogating medical and non-medical data sets using machine and deep-learning
- Improve treatment responses by manipulating the composition and status of the microbiota
- Determine the mechanisms that cause cancer without known mutagenesis, such as obesity, in order to devise novel interventions
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