Prof Mike Hawkins

Professor Mike Hawkins

Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivor Studies
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham

Investigating the long-term effects of childhood cancer treatments

Professor Mike Hawkins directs the Centre for Childhood Cancer Survivor Studies at the University of Birmingham. His team monitor people who have, in the past, received treatment for childhood cancers. There are over 26,000 of these childhood cancer survivors alive in the UK today.

Professor Hawkins and his team are working to understand the long-term side effects of intensive cancer treatment in young patients. They aim to use this information to counsel cancer survivors and their families and to improve childhood cancer treatments for the future.

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