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Asked by to Matt, Leah, Andrea, Ana, Amar on 13 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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Anastasia Wass answered on 13 Mar 2014:
I want to help people to try and ease their pain and hopefully save their life. I think it’s human nature to always want to try and help.
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Amar Joshi answered on 13 Mar 2014:
A very open ended question ship8.
Ultimately, most people don’t like seeing other people in distress. This is true at all levels and is why teachers will help you out if you have a bad fall around school during lunch for example.
There are some diseases where there is no effective treatment, or the current treatments could be improved. I know that the skills I have in looking at molecular interactions could be useful in a drug discovery. So I am using my skills to improve the treatments for multiple myeloma where the current treatments could be improved.
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Andrea Hanvey answered on 13 Mar 2014:
Im not a research scientist, so im not working towards a cure. But i help people on a daily basis working in a hospital lab as a senior biomedical scientist performing tests diagnosing patients with cancer. The aim is to provide a service with a quick turn around time so patients can start receiving treatment as soon as possible. I wanted to work in health care helping people when i was younger but thought if i worked with patients it may upset me. Working in the lab i can help people and not have to see patients suffering and being ill.
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Leah Fitzsimmons answered on 18 Mar 2014:
The first person I ever met who had cancer was my granddad. He died from lung cancer when I was ten. He only lived a very short time between being diagnosed and when he died and this was partly because there weren’t as many treatments available then and partly because he waited too long before telling a doctor that he felt unwell. By the time he got to a hospital he was already too sick to cope with most of the treatments that were available.
This was very upsetting, but it made me want try and stop this happening to other people. So in my research I try to find out how cancer works and hopefully help to find new treatments, but I also want to tell people how important it is to try to prevent cancer and to spot the signs early, so that if they do develop cancer, they can be treated and stand the best possible chance of a full recovery.
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