Three senior doctors have been celebrating awards in the UK New Year's Honours.
National Cancer Director, Professor Mike Richards, received a Knighthood while researcher Professor Valerie Beral, head of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford has been made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to science. Professor John Burn, a clinical geneticist at Newcastle University, has also been knighted.
Watch ecancer interviews with them here:
Professor John Burn
Professor Valerie Beral (Interview at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium coming soon)
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