0:00:00and they've her some professor of pathology university of edinburgh and director of the breakthrough
0:00:05breast cancer research unit
0:00:07so the unit here's come together to apply a lot of different scales all to
0:00:12study breast cancer and particularly asian to breast cancer getting sheet with and unfair i
0:00:18and patients who will ultimately fail to respond factory and so what we're focused on
0:00:24here is trying to understand real human breast cancer in real patients and to understand
0:00:30why treatment sometimes work and then stop working
0:00:34recent data that we've published is built on some early success in the unit which
0:00:39is to identify subpopulations of cancer patients will likely to benefit from a particular type
0:00:46of therapy
0:00:47and in this particular study we make some translation of our findings within the look
0:00:53more tree
0:00:54and identified that this potentially a population of breast cancer patients you might benefit from
0:01:00a new type of therapy but these are really findings but hopefully this opportunity to
0:01:05test this in logic clinical trials
0:01:09the breakthrough bob is great because we are located directly above the breast contact and
0:01:14so we see patients coming and the on a daily basis and it helps to
0:01:19provide the motivation for us to continue to were card and as well we occasionally
0:01:25can get time to more samples from and
0:01:29the unit downstairs in can study those in detail
0:01:32we made a lot of progress breast cancer over the last ten twenty year survival
0:01:37is much better than a lot of drugs are very effective what we're not very
0:01:41good not yet is giving the right person precisely the right treatment for them
0:01:46so we tend to be patients in groups so what we are seeking to do
0:01:49with a whole host of different scales and project is you to trying to figure
0:01:53out how can we personalise somebody's anti cancer treatment so it is the very best
0:01:58chance for them as an individual