• Question: Have you found anything you think might cure cancer

    Asked by LucyDoyle to Sinead on 14 Nov 2016.
    • Photo: Sinead Loughran

      Sinead Loughran answered on 14 Nov 2016:

      Cancer research is a bit like doing a huge jigsaw. Scientists put the pieces together bit by bit and eventually a picture emerges that allows us to see what went wrong in the cancer cell. As the jigsaw comes together, new ways of treating cancer become clear. It is very slow but rewarding work. Each researcher hopes to be able to find a jigsaw piece that fits into the bigger picture. Someday we will have the full picture and we will be able to define many ways to destroy cancer.

      When we find a new way to cure cancer, it has to be tested for safety and to see that it works well, these tests can take several years.

      Along with a team of researchers I studied the role for one gene in a cancer called Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and found that it was a crucial gene in this cancer.
      You can read about this discovery here;
      http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/irish-research-identifies-proteins-role-in-prolonging-cancer-cell-survival-532224.html?utm_source=link&utm_medium=click&utm_campaign=nextandprev

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