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When Professor Caroline Dive watched her father spend his final months fighting a cancer doctors couldn't identify, her focus became much clearer.

Her dad had cancer twice. The first time, surgery saved him. But with the second, at 95, doctors couldn’t find where the new tumours had begun - a disease called cancer of unknown primary, or CUP.

"It was pretty awful," she tells the Manchester Evening News . "Most families are touched by cancer one way or another. It’s personal, and it’s another huge motivator for me."

That motivation has driven her to the forefront of scientific research happening right here in Manchester. As Director of the Cancer Research UK National Biomarker Centre at The Christie, she is leading groundbreaking work on blood tests that could detect canc

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