Inaugural lecture: 'Unlocking the secrets of childhood brain cancer with medical imaging'

Professor Andrew Peet, Professor of Clinical Paediatric Oncology (NIHR), Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences

Brain cancer is a devastating disease for those who have it and their loved ones. Despite impressive advances in how cancer is diagnosed and treated, it remains the most common cause of death from disease in childhood. Of all the childhood cancers, brain tumours are notoriously difficult to diagnose and treat. Medical imaging increasingly provides a window into the secrets of cancer which only a few years ago would have been beyond the dreams of those who struggled to treat children with cancer.

With a career spanning from physical sciences to medial practice, Professor Peet has led a research team which has taken medical imaging from a technique which produces amazing pictures into a tool which provides detailed information on children’s individual cancers, what they are composed of and the course they will take. The team has combined these revolutionary new scans with computerised artificial intelligence to accurately diagnose cancers and predict how they will respond to treatment providing benefits for children across the world.

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