Professor Maeve Lowery:

What that would facilitate is that we can properly integrate research into clinical care of every patient. It should not be bolted on or a side thing. It should be fully integrated into every aspect of the whole clinical pathway of patient care both in terms of screening for cancer, its diagnosis and treatment, and then helping patients live well beyond their cancer diagnosis. The only way we can integrate research at every stage of that process is by having adequately staffed units for research, translational and clinical research, mainly clinical trial research in particular, embedded in our public hospital system.