Oxford Textbook of Colorectal Cancer

Rachel Kerr, Associate Professor of Gastrointestinal Oncology, University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK, Li Yang, Professor of Gastroenterology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, China, David J. Kerr, Professor of Cancer Medicine, University of Oxford, UK Rachel Kerr is Associate Professor of Gastrointestinal Oncology at the University of Oxford, and Consultant Medical Oncologist, and a leader of colorectal cancer trials nationally and internationally. She has spear-headed many clinical trials in the adjuvant setting of colorectal cancer and contributed significantly to this field. Through building correlative clinical outcome and tumour sample biobanks from large adjuvant trials, Rachel Kerr has helped to form our understanding of biomarkers in colorectal cancer to predict prognosis and treatment effect, as well as pioneering the roll out of toxgnostics-the germline identification of patients most at risk of toxic effects of chemotherapy. Li Yang specializes in diagnosis and treatment of complicated diseases in the digestive system, with a focus on hepatic cirrhosis and autoimmune liver diseases. Supported by several grants from the national natural science foundation of China (NFSC) and other projects, she has published more than 1000 peer-reviewed articles in high impact journals like the Journal of Hepatology, Hepatology, Lancet Oncology, Radiology etc. Li Yang received the First Prize of the Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award in 2019 as the first lead author, and the First Prize of China Medical Science and Technology Award in 2022 as the second lead author. She is the Deputy Editor-in-chief of national-level textbooks, such as the Digestive Internal Medicine and Digestive System and Diseases, as well as the Practical Journal of Liver Diseases, and China Medical Forum Press. David Kerr contributes to Oxford University as Professor of Cancer Medicine and Honorary Consultant medical oncologist, where he has worked with colleagues over the past 25 years to build a new Institute for Cancer Medicine and Cancer Hospital. He is an Honorary Professor of Oncology in Oslo and Sichuan Universities and Co-Director of Oxford-Sichuan Gastrointestinal Cancer Centre.
He has an international reputation for the treatment of and research into cancer and the quality of his work has been recognised by the award of several national & international prizes, including the Tianfu Friendship Award (2022), the China Friendship Medal (2024), as well as being appointed Commander of the British Empire by Her Majesty the Queen (2002).
He has served as health adviser to three British Prime Ministers and has supported National Cancer planning in the several countries around the world.
He is currently also Editor in Chief of The Oxford Textbooks of Oncology and Cancer Biology.