UK cancer research: Unequal shares

The complexity of cake cutting with unequal shares

An unceasing problem of our prevailing society is the fair division of goods. The problem of fair cake cutting is dividing a heterogeneous and divisible resource, the cake, among n players who value pieces according to their own measure function. The goal is to assign each player a not necessarily connected part of the cake that the player evaluates at least as much as her proportional share. I...

How Cancer Research UK is adapting to adaptive designs

Clinical trials are central to Cancer Research UK’s purpose of carrying out world-class research to improve our understanding of how to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. The UK leads the world in the percentage of cancer patients entering clinical trials. In 2009, this figure reached an all time high of 16.8% of NHS cancer patients, of which 3⁄4 entered a Cancer Research UK (CR-UK) supported ...

UK Undergraduate Research Program

UK Undergraduate Research Program

Reducing the unequal burden of cancer.

Cancer is second only to heart disease as the leading cause of death among Americans (1). Age-adjusted cancer mortality rates have declined over the last decade, reversing the upward trend of earlier years (2). Notwithstanding, cancer might soon be the leading cause of death in the U.S. because mortality rates from heart disease have declined even faster due to control of hypertension, hypercho...