{"id":2603,"date":"2016-04-21T15:20:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2016-04-21T15:20:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:20:56","slug":"cancer-awareness-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/cancer-awareness-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Awareness talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2605 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/04\/lab2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"lab2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Part of the University Wellbeing and Engagement Group\u2019s calendar of health and wellbeing activities (the theme for April is &#8216;cancer awareness and prevention&#8217;), Dr Paul Reynolds (School of Medicine) delivered a talk on cancer research at the University followed by a lab tour.\u00a0 Since 1 in 2 of us will get some form of cancer during our lifetimes, the cancer awareness campaign is a reminder that we can all reduce our risk by making healthy lifestyle choices.\u00a0 Dr Reynolds described some of the facts and figures about cancer and that &gt;40% of cancer in the UK is linked to lifestyle and environmental risk factors.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2607 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/04\/lab1a-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"lab1a\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was an overview describing the process of conducting clinical trials \u2013 how new medicines become treatments available for patients &#8211; and then information on some of the cancer\/ pathology projects in the Systems Pathology labs at the School of Medicine.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2606 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/med.st-andrews.ac.uk\/medicine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2016\/04\/lab3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"lab3\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the University Wellbeing and Engagement Group\u2019s calendar of health and wellbeing activities (the theme for April is &#8216;cancer awareness and prevention&#8217;), Dr Paul Reynolds delivered a talk on cancer research at the University followed by a lab tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":2607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[170,372,1091],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorised","tag-cancer","tag-dr-paul-reynolds","tag-systems-pathology"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 11:49:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}