Exploring the future of cancer prevention | In-person

RSE partnership event with the Scottish Cancer Foundation

About this Event

Cancer rates are rising worldwide, while the cost of treatment continues to increase. Natural compounds found in foods and old generic drugs could offer safe and affordable ways to prevent cancer, but proving their benefits in clinical trials can be challenging. In this talk, we'll outline some of these challenges and how we can overcome them.

We'll also look at the journey of resveratrol, a constituent of red grapes, wine and peanuts, and its potential to help prevent bowel cancer. We’ll explore how research has progressed from laboratory studies to COLO-PREVENT, a large national trial currently running across 48 bowel cancer screening centres in the UK. The trial aims to investigate whether resveratrol, aspirin and the diabetes drug metformin can protect people from developing bowel polyps. The trial's clinical samples are being analysed to understand how the therapies work and identify biological markers that co