Discovering Excellence | Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer
Professor Gwyn Williams
The battle against cancer – providing the
foundation for improvements in diagnosis and therapy
Cancer is a major cause of death across the globe and research into the cause
and treatment of the disease is increasingly important, both in developed countries
such as the UK and in the developing world because of its association with ageing
A key development in cancer
research was the recognition, more
than 20 years ago, that cancer cells
were not just abnormal in growing
and dividing when they shouldn’t,
but were also cells that were failing
to die when they should. Healthy
human cells were all found to
self-destruct when t