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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.
How might the study of the first 1,500 years of London's port history (encapsulating profound changes ranging from location, infrastructure and technology to variations in river levels) help when making predictions for the future?
This final lecture of the series, given in the church whose bells are commemorated in nursery rhyme as the ‘bells of the Old Bailey’, will explore the place of the bell tower and its inhabitants in the medieval imagination.
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