Professor Joanne Edwards
Professor Joanne Edwards is head of the Translational Cancer Pathology Group in Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre. Her expertise is in the development of biomarkers for personalised patient care and has establishing unique patient tissue cohorts with extensive linked clinical data across a breadth of solid tumours, including colorectal, breast and prostate cancers. Notably, her work led to her election as a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists in 2012 and her aim continues to be identification of clinically relevant aberrations in the human solid tumours and establish if they can be employed in clinical practise to improve patient care and outcome.
Divide and conquer: Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, is the second highest cause of death in Europe. Although we are now better at diagnosing the disease at an earlier stage through the bowel screening program and have made improvements in surgical methods and therapy, still only half of the patients diagnosed with CRC are alive after 5 years. Therefore, awareness and treatment clearly needs to improve if we are going to increase patient survival rates and allow patients to live longer with a better quality of life.
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