Doctors use many different drugs to treat cancer, and researchers around the world are working hard to develop new ones. But what about designing drugs that actually prevent the disease?
One of our promising young researchers is aiming to do just that. We’ve just awarded a prestigious fellowship to Dr Geoff Wells at the London School of Pharmacy so he can carry out research into drugs that could protect cells from turning cancerous – an approach known as chemoprevention.
Such drugs could be used to prevent cancer in people who are known to have an increased risk of developing cancer – such as someone who has inherited a faulty gene from their parents that raises their risk of cancer.
So developing chemopreventative drugs could save lives. And Dr Wells has formulated an exciting plan for going about it.
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