Manchester research laboratory aims to revolutionise cancer treatments

A director of a new “revolutionary” research centre has said that it could lead to some cancer patients avoiding “unnecessary or painful” treatments.

Cancer Research UK’s National Biomarker Centre, which officially opens next week, has been established to test how genes, proteins and molecules can give insights into a person’s cancer so clinicians can develop personalised treatments.

The centre’s research involves the development of a range of tests on patient samples called biomarkers, which can then be used to build a comprehensive picture of an individual tumour.

Professor Caroline Dive of the research centre, said “These are tests we take of a clinical sample from a patient who has a cancer, it could be a biopsy of a tumour, it could be a blood sample, it could be a urine sample.”

The information can then be used to optimise patient care, detect cancers earlier and predict which treatments will be most effective.

Professor Dive added that it will also stop some patients from having to undergo “unnecessary interventions or treatments that could case pain or discomfort without providing benefit.”

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