Professor Lawler takes you on an emotive, exciting and inspiring voyage, telling you how a coalition of patients and healthcare professionals came together to identify inequalities that cancer patients face every single day of their lives and how they addressed these disparities to improve the health and well being of the citizens of Europe.

This innovative work led to the development of the European Cancer Patients’s Bill of Rights (BoR), which Mark launched with patient groups and fellow healthcare professionals in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on World Cancer Day 2014. Mark highlighed some examples of the impact that the BoR has had for both citizens and cancer patients across Europe, culminating in the prestigious 2018 European Health Award. Professor Mark Lawler is a Professor in the Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (CCRCB), Chair in Translational Cancer Genomics, Dean of Education in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences.
Professor Lawler is passionate about translating high quality science for the benefit of patients and has over 20 years’ experience in cancer research. He has over 20 years’ experience in cancer research with a significant record of research achievement, having published over 130 peer-reviewed publications and received numerous national and international awards. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx