Other parallel developments during this period were the creation of the Centre for Medical Statistics and Health Evaluation and the recruitment of a number of leading cancer clinicians; all of these developments produced considerable pressure to expand the remit of the LCTU to include a much wider range of cancers Increasing success with lung cancer molecular epidemiology studies led by Professor John Field was another important element that resulted in the creation of the LCTU, housing both the lung and pancreas cancer clinical groups in the new Liverpool University Cancer Research Centre