Prof Jillian Birch
Cancer Research UK Paediatric and Familial Cancer Research Group
Royal Manchester Children's Hospital
Manchester
Looking for the causes of childhood cancer
Professor Jillian Birch is Director of the Cancer Research UK Paediatric and Familial Cancer Research Group at the University of Manchester. Using valuable data from the Manchester Children's Tumour Registry, she is searching for common features among children, teenagers and young adults with cancer - including genetic and environmental factors - in order to identify possible causes.
She is also studying an inherited condition called Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, which greatly increases the risk of developing cancer.
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