HPV vaccines and the prospects for cancer prevention 24 Nov 2021 Following the report that HPV vaccination of teenage girls may reduce the incidence of cervical cancer by around 90%, Professor Sir Mel Greaves discusses the future of cancer prevention. Find out more Show/Hide
The trouble with Chimneys: from Percival Potts to Archibald Leitch 23 Dec 2020 What, you might ask, could possibly connect Percival Potts, surgeon at St Bartholomew’s hospital in the 1770s, with a pathologist a hundred years ago? The answer is that it is something to do with soot, sweat and scrotums. And chimneys. Find out more Show/Hide
COVID-19 and other experiments of nature 18 Nov 2020 Professor Sir Mel Greaves ponders 'experiments of nature' - from the COVID-19 pandemic to the birth of identical twins - and argues that they can give us vital clues to the causes of cancer. Find out more Show/Hide