Susan Galbraith: Five trends will drive the future of cancer treatment

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Part 2 of an interview with AstraZeneca’s head of oncology

By C. Simone Fishburn, Editor in Chief

July 20, 2024 12:28 AM UTC

If Susan Galbraith is right, within a decade backbone chemotherapy may have been largely displaced, many more patients will receive curative radiotherapy, and long-term survival benefits in cancer may be radically improved by bringing new treatments into earlier-line therapy and using better screening tools, including some powered by AI.

Galbraith, EVP of oncology R&D at  AstraZeneca plc (LSE:AZN; NASDAQ:AZN), sat down with BioCentury to discuss the past and the future of cancer research, and AstraZeneca’s approach.