William Steward

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University of Leicester
Osborne Building
Leicester Royal Infirmary
Leicester
LE1 5WW
United Kingdom

Email: wps1@le.ac.uk
Tel: 0116 258 7597 direct/254 1414
Web: Lab website

Professor Will Steward is head of an internationally respected team of researchers based at the University of Leicester. He is finding out if chemicals found in everyday foods could be used to help prevent cancer.

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A major focus of Professor Steward and his team's Cancer Research UK funded research in Leicester involves Chemoprevention - utilising chronically administered agents to prevent, reverse or delay one or more of the steps of carcinogenesis.
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William Steward other research projects

Leicester Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)
Funding period: 01 April 2007 to 31 March 2012

Biological Sciences Committee (BSC) Programme Grants
Funding period: 01 July 2011 to 30 September 2016

Recent publications


Androgen manipulation alters oxidative DNA adduct levels in androgen-sensitive prostate cancer cells grown in vitro and in vivo

Cancer Lett.2008;261 :74-83

The use of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic end points to determine the dose of AQ4N, a novel hypoxic cell cytotoxin, given with fractionated radiotherapy in a phase I study

Ann Oncol.2007;18 :1098-1103

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