Australian Minister for Health, Greg Hunt MP announced access to Kymriah, a CAR T-cell therapy, through the public health system; Novartis will partner with Peter Mac to manufacture the therapy. In a separate announcement, Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Brendan Murphy, has been appointed the new Secretary for the Department of Health. An analysis of Australian Institute of Health and Welfare compared current and past lifetime risks of cancer, the result has led researchers to conclude about 11,000 women and 18,000 men are overdiagnosed each year. Professor Bowtell and Dr Au-Yeung from Peter Mac talk to Dr Norman Swan about the advances in diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cancer. Cardiff University researchers have discovered a type of immune cell which recognises and kills most human cancer types, while ignoring healthy cells. |
| | | Monday 20 January - Tuesday 28 January |  |  | The Age (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Jan 28, 2020 0:1 |  | | Australians battling highly aggressive blood cancers could start a groundbreaking treatment within weeks, after the... be curative" in some cases. Health Minister Greg Hunt said between 200 and 250 extra cancer patients were expected to... |
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| | Medical Journal of Australia • Jan 27, 2020 0:18 | | | The known: Overdiagnosis of some common cancers is a problem in developed countries, including Australia. The new: After analysing changes... Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia |
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| | Mirage News • Jan 25, 2020 20:2 | | | A new multidisciplinary study involving six universities is to investigate why some patients who have had advanced cancer remain well after... cancer remain well after treatment. Funded by three time cancer survivor Dr James Hull, the research team will be based... |
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| | Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Jan 24, 2020 21:27 | | | An international consortium of researchers from Australia, Ireland, the UK, Europe, and Canada, has painstakingly mapped an intracellular... Cell network mapping reveals rewiring in colorectal cancer |
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| | ABC News • Jan 24, 2020 13:29 | | | Coming soon. This audio is not yet available. On Health Report with Dr Norman Swan Three recent papers in the New England Journal of... Advances in ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment |
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| | The Age (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Jan 23, 2020 21:15 | | | Queensland scientists have discovered certain abnormalities in cancer cells strongly affect how the cancer responds... Cancer 'arm' discovery gives doctors potential leg-up for treatments |
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| | The University of Queensland • Jan 23, 2020 9:0 | | | Pioneering discoveries about the ‘extraordinarily strange’ visual systems of shrimps - that could improve early detection of cancer - have... improve early detection of cancer - have been recognised with an international prize. University of Queensland... |
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| | The Department of Health • Jan 22, 2020 9:22 | | | Statement regarding the retirement of Ms Glenys Beauchamp PSM. , Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute and the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre. I believe his appointment will... |
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| | Herald Sun (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Jan 22, 2020 6:30 | | | A common pill used to treat anxiety and high blood pressure could become a breast cancer wonder drug. Monash University study finds drug propranolol stops breast cancer spreading |
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| | The Medical News • Jan 22, 2020 4:58 | | | After years of research on cell surface receptors called Frizzleds, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden provide the... Study finds new strategies for developing cancer drug |
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| | SBS (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Jan 21, 2020 14:23 | | | A newly discovered killer immune cell could lead to the development of a treatment for all cancers, according to... immune cell has raised the prospect of a "universal" cancer therapy, scientists say. Researchers at Cardiff University... |
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| | The Medical News • Jan 21, 2020 11:49 | | | Drugs for diabetes, inflammation, alcoholism -- and even for treating arthritis in dogs -- can also kill cancer cells in the lab, according... scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The researchers systematically... |
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| | Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Jan 21, 2020 9:59 | | | An immune cell receptor that targets and kills multiple types of cancer cell has been found by international and Australian researchers,... types of cancer cell has been found by international and Australian researchers, opening up exciting opportunities for... |
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