The US cancer rate is steadily declining, experts attribute the decrease to reduced smoking rates, advances in lung cancer treatment, and new therapies for melanoma. A clinical trial for a ‘spray-on’ chemotherapy is underway at sites across Australia, including PeterMac. MCRI scientists add definitive evidence to understanding how the body’s earliest immune cells are formed. Artificial intelligence has provided diagnoses for 10 of the most common types of brain cancer, with performance comparable to pathologists. UCLA researchers have created open-source software to estimate the speed an individual cancer is evolving. |
| | | Monday 6 January - Monday 13 January |  |  | Herald Sun (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Jan 12, 2020 8:0 |  | | New “spray-on” chemotherapy being tested in Melbourne is giving fresh hope to cancer patients. is set to be rolled out in Sydney soon. media_camera\The Peter Mac hospital is testing the spray. Picture: Kris Reichl Epworth... |
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| | The Medical News • Jan 11, 2020 1:7 | | | Cancer is a disease of evolution: cancer cells continually grow and change, and new mutations allow them to spread, even as treatments have... New framework developed to estimate the growth of individual cancer |
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| | Financial Review (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Jan 11, 2020 0:0 | | | Prostate cancer is entering the era of 'precision medicine', bringing a new approach and a new class of... says Professor Declan Murphy, director of genitourinary oncology at The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne. "They showed a... |
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| | Financial Review (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Jan 10, 2020 0:0 | | | Share While the fall in cancer death rates in the US is making headlines across the world, Australia has quietly... Cancer survival in Australia among the best in the world |
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| | Mirage News • Jan 9, 2020 12:6 | | | Hudson Institute researchers discover why the most common form of childhood brain cancer is seen in boys more than girls, and identify a... Hudson Institute researchers discover why the most common form of childhood brain cancer is seen in boys more than girls,... |
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| | The Medical News • Jan 9, 2020 9:33 | | | One day the advance could lead to a patient's own skin cells being used to produce new cells for cancer immunotherapy or to test autoimmune... led by Professors Ed Stanley and Andrew Elefanty, from the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, said the... |
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| | The Age (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Jan 9, 2020 7:5 | | | The cancer death rate in the United States fell 2.2 per cent from 2016 to 2017 — the largest single-year decline in... Cancer death rate is in steady decline among Americans |
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| | Oncology News Australia • Jan 8, 2020 21:22 | | | Stephen Bevan, Lancaster University When I lost a relative to cancer in the late 1970s, people usually viewed a cancer diagnosis with... How employers can help cancer survivors return to work – based on my own experience |
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| | The Medical News • Jan 8, 2020 6:14 | | | Scientists at UCL have identified how a subset of immune cells are activated to kill cancerous cells, a finding in mice which could hold... hold the key to new powerful therapies against cancer. This new study built on previous research, also led by Professors... |
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| | The Examiner (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Jan 8, 2020 4:0 | | | Lung cancer remains one of the world's biggest killers. However, little is known about its causes and how to... Dr Sukhwinder Sohal leads Tasmanian research changing the lung cancer trajectory |
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| | Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Jan 7, 2020 3:34 | | | An artificial intelligence (AI) capable of providing bedside diagnoses of patients with brain cancer can classify surgical samples from the... Artificial Intelligence is as good as a pathologist at diagnosing brain cancer |
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| | The Department of Health • Jan 6, 2020 9:27 | | | Australians living with advanced breast cancer now have access to an important new treatment option, with the Australian Government listing... New hope for breast cancer patients with key drug added to PBS |
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