To thank our donor community for their generous and ongoing support, Oxford Cancer is hosting a series of events for its supporters. These events will highlight and discuss some of the key areas of cancer research currently taking place across Oxford and provide supporters with an opportunity to put their questions to the experts.

Cancer cases are increasing rapidly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA); it is predicted that there will be 85% more cases by 2030. In this region, where 40% of the population is under 15 years old, cancer is unfortunately occurring more in younger people.

In the second event of the series, Claire El Mouden, Programme Manager will give a talk on AI -REAL (Aggressive Infection-Related East Africa Lymphoma) a research collaboration that aims to assess the accuracy of new, low-cost ways of diagnosing Epstein Barr virus-associated lymphoma (cancer that begins in cells of the lymph system) in East African patients.