Highlights from our first Children’s and Young People’s Cancer Research Conference

Most cancers Analysis UK held its first Kids’s and Younger Individuals’s Most cancers Analysis Convention on the Royal Society in London on 14th November 2023.  

Scientists and researchers from throughout the UK shared updates about their work to enhance how we perceive and deal with kids’s cancers. The in-person occasion additionally inspired consciousness and promoted connections throughout the UK’s kids’s and younger folks’s most cancers analysis neighborhood. 

Professor Pam Kearns, Director of the Most cancers Analysis UK Scientific Trials Unit on the College of Birmingham introduced on how new methods of working medical trials may help us check potential medicine for kids and younger folks’s cancers as rapidly, effectively and safely as attainable. She additionally summed up why occasions like this are so necessary. 

“The best way we’ve been working, for the final decade actually, is ready for the crumbs from the grownup drug growth desk. We’re getting higher, however what we really want now could be we want the medicine developed for kids’s most cancers particularly,” mentioned Kearns.  

“We have to take what we now know in regards to the biology of kids’s most cancers and work with the organisations within the room (and notably Most cancers Analysis UK) and say how can we develop medicine for these targets that solely occur in kids.”  

Kearns and different audio system emphasised what could be gained by bringing all these working in kids and younger folks’s most cancers collectively, together with different charities and funders, similar to Kids with Most cancers UK, Blood Most cancers UK and the Teenage Most cancers Belief. In a roundtable session, researchers, college students and funders additionally mentioned attainable options to the challenges round kids and younger folks’s most cancers analysis.