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Professor Steve Jones will talk about the crafty ways of living creatures, from orchids to ourselves, and about how, beneath every beauty, lies a beast.
Different cancers offer differing hopes of prevention; from cervical or lung cancer (which are completely or largely preventable), to prostate cancer (for which there is no current strategy). What can be done, and what does the future hold?
The treatment of cancer has been transformed in the last two decades, and great improvements are expected over the next twenty years. Better genetic understanding and harnessing of the immune system are among the approaches which will make the difference.