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I’m Andrew Peet, I’m an NIHR Professor at the University of Birmingham and a consultant
paediatric oncologist at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
My clinical work and research concerns children with brain cancer, the most common cause of
death from cancer in childhood. Our research is centred on improving imaging methods. Imagining
has really become a mainstay for helping us to diagnose children with cancer, to work
out how to treat them in an optimal fashion and for seeing whether or not our treatments
work. The imaging methods used at the moment just look at structure, so they’ll tell
us that there’s a lump there, it’ll tell us how big it is but it won’t really tell
us what type of tumour it is, how easy it’s going to be to treat. So we’ve been developing
new imaging methods which allow us to get that type of information. Overall it helps
us to personalise our treatment to the specific child, which is so important in making their
outcome the best that it possibly can be.
Birmingham is the ideal place to undertake this research. We have a very close partnership
between the University of Birmingham and Birmingham Children’s Hospital, which really helps
in translating all the research from basic ideas into techniques which can be used on
our patients.
Please donate whatever you can to our research into children’s brain cancer.