The Victorian Cancer Registry, via Cancer Council Victoria, has released Cancer in Victoria: Statistics and Trends 2018, the world’s most up-to-date cancer incidence and mortality information. Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt announced $437M for research projects via NHMRC funding, cancer projects will receive $68M and $27M for genomics research. In a separate announcement, $13.5M in health and medical research grants will be available for Indigenous-led projects QIMR researchers investigating a tapeworm protein have found an effective way to inhibit the growth of various cancer cell types. |
| | | Monday 2 December - Monday 9 December |  |  | Unknown • Dec 9, 2019 10:41 |  | | The data were published today by the Victorian Cancer Registry as part of its publication, Cancer in Victoria: Statistics and Trends 2018, which contains the world’s most up-to-date cancer incidence and mortality information. |
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| | The Age (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Dec 9, 2019 0:0 | | | Lung cancer is set to become the target of a new national screening program as cancer experts ask the public to... Public asked who should be eligible for lung cancer screening program |
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| | The Department of Health • Dec 8, 2019 15:12 | | | Australian Government grants will support research into the best approaches to prevention, early intervention and treatment of Indigenous... and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The $20 billion Medical Research Future Fund is a significant boost to Australia’s... |
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| | Herald Sun (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Dec 7, 2019 21:8 | | | Groundbreaking medical research projects across Australia will share in almost half a billion dollars of funding. approaches. We’re extremely thankful.” media_cameraHealth Minister Greg Hunt. Picture: Mick Tsikas Cancer projects will... |
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| | Monash University • Dec 7, 2019 7:0 | | | Monash University has been awarded more than $76 million in the latest round of National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)... also brings the total funding awarded to Monash for NHMRC and Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) grants to more than... |
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| | The Medical News • Dec 6, 2019 14:48 | | | A new approach to programing cancer-fighting immune cells called CAR-T cells can prolong their activity and increase their effectiveness... their effectiveness against human cancer cells grown in the laboratory and in mice, according to a study by researchers... |
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| | Medicines Australia • Dec 5, 2019 22:46 | | | Medicines Australia is disappointed that proposed changes to the Research and Development Tax Incentive were tabled without notice or... Proposed Changes to Research and Development Tax Incentive will discourage investment and undermine innovation |
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| | The Age (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Dec 5, 2019 22:45 | | | Researchers looking for a vaccine to prevent tapeworm in humans have instead stumbled across a potential treatment... for multiple forms of cancer. The history of science is littered with examples of discoveries being made while... |
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| | The Medical News • Dec 5, 2019 4:15 | | | About one-third of patients newly diagnosed with the most common form of lung cancer have moderate to severe symptoms of depression, a new... One-third of lung cancer patients have depression symptoms, study finds |
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| | The Medical News • Dec 4, 2019 10:0 | | | Scientists at Scripps Research have developed a method for rapidly discovering potential cancer-treating compounds that work by... Scientists at Scripps Research have developed a method for rapidly discovering potential cancer-treating compounds that... |
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| | COSMOS Magazine • Dec 3, 2019 6:56 | | | Glow-in-the-dark cells show mutations driving malignancy. Colour catches cancer spreading |
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| | Hack - Triple J • Dec 2, 2019 15:31 | | | Imagine being 13 and told you have bone cancer. Worse still, doctors tell you that the treatment for that cancer could mean you never have... back into the body," Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe from the Royal Children's Hospital and the Royal Women's Hospital in... |
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