Newsletter Signup x
Air pollution is known to cause a range of health problems for adults and children. Prof Dudley Shallcross is studying what effect that air pollution during pregnancy has on the unborn child’s risk of developing cancer later in life. This could lead to new public health measures to prevent cancer in children.
Assessment of potential health impacts from transplacental exposure to carcinogenic air pollutants.
Professor Dudley Shallcross
University of Bristol
Bristol, United Kingdom, BS8 1TS
1 November 2019
36 months
£349,833
A new approach for treating childhood medulloblastoma
Medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumour of childhood. Although 70% of patients can be cured, the aggressive treatments
Read morePatient Story – Felix
Felix was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) on 26 January 2016. He was just 10 years old at
Read more