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With our Science Talk blog, we hope to lift the lid on the black box that is the ICR: to show you inside our labs, to introduce you to a few of the people here who make the discoveries, and to allow them to tell some of the stories behind the science. We try to put our discoveries in a wider scientific context, and give an idea of how our science is actually done. We also give you the view from the ICR of important developments in the wider world of cancer research.

Clinical trial statistics: so much more than analysis

Clinical trial statistics: so much more than analysis

For World Statistics Day Graham Shaw spoke to Dr Jan Rekowski from the ICR’s Clinical Trials and Statistics Unit. He shared advice on getting into medical statistics and explained how statistics helps to generate meaningful data and provide far more than just analysis.

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Listen to the patient: International Clinical Trials Day 2021

Listen to the patient: International Clinical Trials Day 2021

Professor Christina Yap is Team Leader in Early Phase and Adaptive Trials within our Clinical Trials and Statistics Unit (ICR-CTSU). Her work on clinical trial design involves rethinking conventional procedures to make trials more efficient and outcomes more relevant for patients. On International Clinical Trials Day 2021, Gege Li spoke to Professor Yap to find out more about one change that could improve how we uncover adverse symptoms in cancer patients.

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ASCO 2020: Cancer researchers get together at a distance

ASCO 2020: Cancer researchers get together at a distance

At a time when cancer researchers usually descend on Chicago for the biggest cancer conference of the year, Sarah Wells looks ahead at some of the highlights that researchers from The Institute of Cancer Research will be presenting at this year’s virtual edition of the ASCO Annual Meeting.

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