What is Driving Cancer?

This ICSUSL pre-conference event titled ‘What is driving cancer?’ is intended to bring into focus the crosstalk between the translational cancer research and cancer treatment today. This will particularly highlight cellular and molecular aspects of cancer biology, imaging the tumour microenvironment, circulating tumour cells, leukaemia and blood stem cells and breast cancer epigenetics. An expert panel of clinicians and scientists will show experimental outcomes and raise critical questions relevant for clinical applications today. It is meant to be educational and curiosity building for those interested in cancer research.

Medical faculty, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, is honoured to welcome Dr Lakshan Abeynaike, Consultant Clinical Oncologist, Teaching Hospital Badulla; Dr Suraj Perera, Consultant Community Physician, National Cancer Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka. Prof Shyamala Maheswaran, Investigator and Co-director of Circulating Tumour Cell Laboratory, Mass General Research Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA; Prof John Dick, Helga and Antonio De Gasperis Chair in Blood Cancer Stem Cell Research, Prince Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Canada;  Prof Arbab Ali, Imaging Scientist, Georgia Cancer Centre, Augusta University, USA; and Dr Muthusamy Thangaraju, Epigeneticists, Georgia Cancer Centre, Augusta University, USA.