International effort targets barriers to cancer breakthroughs

UK and US universities link up in early-detection effort

An international partnership of some of the world’s leading universities has been set up to target problems that prevent researchers making breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer.

Backed with over £55 million for the next five years, the International Alliance for Cancer Early Detection (ACED) will bring together Stanford University, the Oregon Health and Science University in the United States and the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Manchester in the UK. The group says that lack of funding and problems with collaboration have kept early-detection work “small-scale and disconnected”.