World Cancer Research Day is an annual global campaign to promote research on the causes, prevention and early detection of cancer as a key element in controlling the disease.
The aim of World Cancer Research Day is to work together towards a 70% cancer survival rate worldwide by 2030 and to improve the quality of life for people with cancer.
To show our support for World Cancer Research Day in Cambridge, early career researcher Paula Martin-Gonzalez is taking over our CRUKCambridge Twitter account. She will describe her typical day and to show how her research is helping to increase our understanding of cancer and improve treatment for patients.
Paula is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and a Marie-Curie fellow in the Markowetz lab at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute under the Computational Oncology Training Alliance (CONTRA) Innovative Training Network.
In her PhD work she is trying to improve cancer understanding and clinical routines using machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques.
In particular, she explores how medical imaging scans can be used to personalise cancer treatment and understand better tumours at the molecular level.
Follow Paula’s research day on @CRUKCambridge #WorldCancerResearchDay
