• Question: Do you narrow down on just one type of cancer in your work, or do you work using more than one?

    Asked by winchester to Marianne, Andrew on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by crowntown100.
    • Photo: Andrew Maynard

      Andrew Maynard answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Hi winchester and crowntown100,

      I’m going to let the others answer this, as I don’t work directly on cancer.

    • Photo: Marianne Baker

      Marianne Baker answered on 14 Jun 2010:

      Hi winchester,

      So in our lab we’re interested in how blood vessels grow into tumours. That can be any type of tumour, a solid growth in the body; anything except the leukaemias/lymphomas and other blood-based cancers.

      Sometimes we work more with breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, skin cancer… because all (or at least most) solid tumours rely on a blood supply to get bigger, we don’t focus on one specific type of cancer really.

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