Dr Foad Rouhani: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- Reader at King's College London, Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute
- Quoted on
- Cancer
- Tracked press citations
- 3
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
“Beyond its significance for children with cancer, our findings have unearthed something quite unprecedented about chemotherapy and DNA damage: The same chemotherapy drug can cause different types of DNA damage across tissues.”
What Dr Foad Rouhani has said
“Beyond its significance for children with cancer, our findings have unearthed something quite unprecedented about chemotherapy and DNA damage: The same chemotherapy drug caused different types of DNA damage across tissues. This is a fundamental observation that questions our assumption that chemotherapy causes the same DNA damage in all tissues.”
Reader at King's College London, Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute · Cancer · 29 Sept 2026 · Research uncovers the impact of childhood chemotherapy on healthy tissues ↗
“Beyond its significance for children with cancer, our findings have unearthed something quite unprecedented about chemotherapy and DNA damage: The same chemotherapy drug can cause different types of DNA damage across tissues. This is a fundamental observation that questions our assumption that chemotherapy causes the same DNA damage in all tissues.”
Co-senior author at the Francis Crick Institute and King's College London · Cancer · 29 Sept 2026 · Platinum-based chemotherapy shown to ‘age’ a child’s healthy cells ↗
Where Dr Foad Rouhani has been quoted
- Platinum chemotherapy may cause decades' worth of DNA changes in children's healthy cellsmedicalxpress.com · 29 Sept 2026
- Research uncovers the impact of childhood chemotherapy on healthy tissueskcl.ac.uk · 29 Sept 2026
- Platinum-based chemotherapy shown to ‘age’ a child’s healthy cellsoncology-central.com · 29 Sept 2026
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