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Oncology News Australia • Nov 23, 2020  4:58
This week we have a Special Episode of The Oncology Journal Club focused on Cardio Oncology. Eva Segelov talks to Professor ...
funding for The Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer Centre which opened in September 2016. Dr Underhill is the VCCC Regional Oncology Lead and
 
 
Partners
The Sydney Morning Herald (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Nov 21, 2020  15:16
When Doug Hilton accepted a job as a researcher in a blood cancer lab at Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall ...
a job as a researcher in a blood cancer lab at Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research as a university student in
 
AsiaNet • Nov 20, 2020  4:7
MIM Software Inc., a leading global provider of medical imaging software, announced today a collaboration with Peter MacCallum Cancer ...
announced today a collaboration with Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Peter Mac) in support of its Prostate Cancer Theranostics and Imaging
 
Oncology News Australia • Nov 16, 2020  17:23
Research led by Peter Mac is helping explain the broader effects of a new and powerful class of anti-cancer drugs, in the hope of making ...
Research led by Peter Mac is helping explain the broader effects of a new and powerful class of anti-cancer drugs, in the hope of making
 
 
Lung Cancer
Kalgoorlie Miner • Nov 22, 2020  18:29
Having suffered from lung cancer, Kalgoorlie-Boulder man Pat Reddish is urging locals to be aware of the symptoms ...
most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia and the most common cause of cancer death, according to Australian Institute of Health and
 
 
Melanoma
ABC NewsRadio • Nov 16, 2020  8:45
New Cancer Council research has found one in four young parents admit they get sunburnt on a summer weekend and almost half like to get a ...
on a summer weekend and almost half like to get a tan. Cancer Australia predicts melanoma will climb from being the nation's fourth to our
 
 
Pancreatic Cancer
The Advocate (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Nov 19, 2020  4:0
A national pancreatic cancer road map is being developed by the federal government with submissions being sought ...
accessed. Thursday is World Pancreatic Cancer Day. Chief executive of Cancer Australia Professor Dorothy Keefe said while it's the eighth-
 
 
Reproductive Cancers
Pickr • Nov 22, 2020  7:43
The year’s young inventors have thrown their ideas into the ring, and the 2020 James Dyson Award winners have been picked. What great ideas ...
uses liquid crystals to make a zoom that doesn’t lose quality. And in Australia, our national winner was a special bike designed by RMIT
 
Starts at 60 • Nov 20, 2020  16:30
Aussies are being urged to get their prostate checked this November, with a new way to detect cancer making it easier for men around the ...
other methods. Sadly, prostate cancer is the second most common cancer diagnosed in Australian men (after lung cancer), with one in six men
 
Gold Coast Bulletin (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Nov 17, 2020  2:31
It’s one of the top illnesses killing Australian men — and new international research has found just a handful of ...
It’s one of the top illnesses killing Australian men — and new international research has found just a handful of nuts could be the secret
 
 
Sarcoma
The Australian • Nov 22, 2020  18:33
Vikki Bedford and daughter Zoe, 14, who successfully underwent proton therapy in the US for a rare tumour. The therapy allows doctors to ...
 
 
Treatment Development
Essential Baby (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Nov 19, 2020  12:55
Every pregnancy potentially reduces a woman's risk of developing endometrial cancer, new research has found. The ...
, is the fifth most commonly diagnosed cancer for Australian women. According to Cancer Australia, more than 3,100 women were diagnosed last
 
 
Covid-19 & Cancer
Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Nov 16, 2020  14:48
Two drugs under development to treat aggressive prostate cancer will now be tested to combat the deadliest response to COVID-19 infection ...
research on two hormones secreted by body fat, that modulate prostate cancer tumour growth could also have roles in driving the rapid-onset,
 
The Sydney Morning Herald (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Nov 18, 2020  18:28
Academics fear critical research into COVID-19 transmission, Parkinson's disease, dementia and cancer prevention ...
said. "Our research themes are aligned to health issues that face Australian communities, as well as the priorities for various bodies that
 
Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance • Nov 18, 2020  16:59
An estimated 145,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed in Australia each year. While the number was expected to rise in 2020, a side ...
An estimated 145,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed in Australia each year. While the number was expected to rise in 2020, a side effect
 
Federation University Australia • Nov 18, 2020  3:56
Promising trials have shown that an effective vaccine may be available sooner than first expected ...
the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne, and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute who are
 
SBS Punjabi • Nov 17, 2020  16:35
Getting men to go to the doctor has always posed particular challenges- but in the year of COVID-19, it's been even harder. A new data has ...
drops first hand. Sobering statistics from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare revealing Australia’s rate of all cancers in men