New UK cancer conference announced

Published: 2-Feb-2005

Plans for the largest cancer research conference ever held in the UK have been announced by the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI).


Plans for the largest cancer research conference ever held in the UK have been announced by the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI).

The NCRI Cancer Conference, which will be held at the ICC in Birmingham from Sunday 2 October to Wednesday 5 October, 2005 will be the first time the major cancer research funding bodies from the government, charity and industrial sectors have come together at a conference on this scale in the UK.

Since its formation four years ago, the NCRI has started to change the way cancer research is carried out in Britain. Its purpose is to accelerate and advance improvements for the benefit of cancer patients, by engaging the whole UK cancer research community.

New networks have been developed for the conduct of clinical and translational research. New initiatives have been promoted in under-funded areas, including supportive and palliative care, and prevention and risk research. New alliances are being forged among the funders on the one hand, and among investigators across a range of scientific and clinical disciplines on the other. All these activities are shaped by the full engagement of the patient community.

The NCRI Cancer Conference will be an opportunity to build new national and international links as well as consolidating those which already exist. The conference themes, covering a wide range of topics from basic science through to clinical investigations, will include important areas of well-established research and some historically less well-funded areas that NCRI is trying to boost.

Professor Alex Markham, the chairman of NCRI, said: 'As well as talks from internationally-renowned speakers, there will be a focus on how patients are contributing to the development of the research agenda. There will be a wide variety of sessions which should appeal to patients, public opinion leaders and professionals from a range of disciplines.

'I expect the NCRI Cancer Conference will become one of the main highlights of the annual international programme in cancer research and anyone with an interest in cancer research is most welcome to attend.'

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