• Question: Do you think your work might help find a cure for cancer?

    Asked by hannahmilne to Sarah on 16 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Sarah Thomas

      Sarah Thomas answered on 16 Mar 2011:

      Hi there,

      At the moment, i’m trying to focus on getting the blood test to work, I’m not trying to cure cancer. However, I think my research may lead to new ideas for targets for new drugs because the area of my research is a really new and under-studied field. So if my research works, then maybe people will realise that this part of cancer research is really important and do more work on it.

      And if I can target my dye to bind to cancer chemicals in the blood then I don’t see why other people couldn’t make a drug that could bind to the same cancer chemicals and help kill the tumours!

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