Adrienne Flanagan: Sarcoma awareness month, part 1

"To gain information and insight into these, particularly, rare
tumors, we will have to collect them for many, many years."


 


Today on The G Word, Vivienne Parry, our Head of Public
Engagement at Genomics England is joined by Professor Adrienne
Flanagan. She is the professor of musculoskeletal pathology at
UCL and is perhaps the most distinguished academic in this field
in Europe. She has made major contributions to the biology of
osteoclasts in conditions such as osteopetrosis and made a major
advance with her discovery of the locus for the gene causing
cherubism. Adrienne has also been very proactive in developing
collaborative links to advance genetic studies in sarcomas. 


 


Together, they discuss the symptoms of sarcoma, what sarcoma is
and its different subtypes. They also discuss the changes in
Sarcoma research through genome sequencing and its future in the
field of medicine.