VOICE: ‘Science for Advocates’ Residential Study Week

Hosted by Warwick Clinical Trials Unit: 19^th to 23^rd September 2016

The course covered:

An introduction to basic cancer biology with sessions on what cancer is, how it is caused, how it develops and how  it is detected and treated. Course participants spent time in the research laboratories to help them to build their understanding.

An introduction to epidemiology, statistics and reading scientific papers with sessions on understanding statistics, understanding risk, epidemiology and how to read and interpret scientific papers.

For a flavour of the course we have a short video of the week VOICE2016

For a review of the course read a blog from one of the students.Amanda's View of VOICE 2016

This year's course was generously supported by Warwick Clinical Trials Unit and Novartis Oncology