Cancer Research UK sets up centre of excellence in Liverpool for research and treatment

Feb 25 2009 by Liza Williams, Liverpool Daily Post

LIVERPOOL gains new status today as a centre of excellence for the research and treatment of cancer.

The city is one of the first links in a unique chain of Cancer Research UK (CRUK) centres to be launched around the country, bringing £2m of extra funding a year to the city.

The project will draw together world-class research and medical expertise, setting the pace for national and international progress in cancer of the pancreas, head, neck and blood.

It will also concentrate on the treatment of children’s cancers and pioneering the latest techniques in surgery, radiotherapy.

Researchers will focus on how cancers start and behave, how to develop better treatments with fewer side effects, and how to tackle cancer in low-income communities where survival is lowest.