Beating the ‘silent killer’

In this episode, we discuss work towards overcoming resistance to ovarian cancer treatment.

Our guest is Dr Melissa Pitman, ovarian cancer researcher at the Centre for Cancer Biology.

We learn about:

• why ovarian cancer is known as the 'silent killer'
• why chemotherapy resistance is a major problem when treating ovarian cancer
• how Dr Pitman is using lab models to understand why some cancers become resistant and how they can be re-sensitised to treatment

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