FREE Webinar
Tuesday, September 8, 2020
5:00 – 6:00 PM, Japanese Commonplace Time
Head and neck cancers arising from the higher aerodigestive tract are the sixth main reason behind cancer-related mortality, with over 550,000 new circumstances per 12 months. Although it continues to be prevalent, the etiology of oropharyngeal most cancers (OPC; most cancers of the tonsil and base of tongue) has fully modified within the final 30 years. Now, human papillomavirus (HPV) is the main reason behind OPC. Whereas sufferers with viral OPC are typically youthful and have a superior response to therapy and higher prognosis in contrast with non-viral-OPC sufferers, the organic variations between these cancers will not be nicely understood because of the paucity of genomic knowledge within the viral-OPC inhabitants. The underlying genetic drivers of various most cancers cell phenotypes, or “tumoral heterogeneity,” have an effect on medical outcomes however haven’t been studied intimately.
On this webinar hosted by The…
Subjects to be coated
- How tumoral heterogeneity in head and neck most cancers impacts medical outcomes
- Methods to examine heterogeneous subpopulations of HPV+ most cancers cells utilizing single-cell and spatial strategies
Meet the speaker:
Joseph Powell, PhD
Affiliate Professor
Garvan Institute of Medical Analysis
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