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Tuesday 14 April – Monday 20 April

The Australian Government has increased investment by $3M to support health workers, building on $36M for coronavirus research, part of the $2.4B for the COVID-19 National Health Plan. Queensland Health Minister has called for a reintroduction of elective surgeries, due to the state’s low number of COVID-19 cases.

Cancer Core Europe, seven comprehensive cancer centres, have collaborated to revise and reorganise their patient care and scientific research due to the coronavirus crisis.

MCRI and University of Melbourne research study has found variation in reanalysis of genomic data, resulting in a call for a better framework to improve diagnostic rates.

Immune T cells have a spectrum of responsiveness, European researchers have found that T cells require ‘training’ to switch from naïve to experienced.

 
COVID-19 and Cancer
The Medical News • Apr 19, 2020  9:41
In Nature Medicine, the seven comprehensive cancer centres of Cancer Core Europe (CCE), including the Netherlands Cancer Institute and...
comprehensive cancer centres of Cancer Core Europe (CCE), including the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Cancer...
 
The Australian • Apr 15, 2020  21:21
Some states are preparing to resume elective surgeries and health screenings after services were suspended to make...
Coronavirus: Elective surgeries and cancer screening set to restart soon
 
The Department of Health • Apr 14, 2020  8:1
The Australian Government will provide a further $3 million to support frontline health workers with training and information which will...
with coronavirus. $1 million in funding from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) will transform the treatment and...
 
ABC News • Apr 11, 2020  5:0
On a Sunday morning in late March, I got the call I'd been dreading. It was my mum, clearly upset, calling to tell me my grandfather had...
accept this new situation." Anthropology Professor Tamara Kohn, from University of Melbourne, said death is one of life's...
 
 
Population health
ABC [Goldfields WA] • Apr 14, 2020  17:42
Families of cancer patients in remote communities are now confronting 3,000-kilometre road trips for life-saving treatment, after flights...
Regional cancer patients left stranded without vital treatment due to Virgin, Qantas flight cancellations
 
The Medical News • Apr 18, 2020  0:19
A better framework for the reanalysis of genetic data, a game-changing process which could improve diagnostic rates by up to 32 per cent,...
has found. The research, led by the Murdoch Children's Research (MCRI) and the University of Melbourne and published in Familial...
 
 
Research
TerraDaily • Apr 16, 2020  9:3
/PRNewswire/ -- New treatments designed to prevent cancer from developing, based on changing the microenvironment in which cancer cells...
UK Edinburgh Centre, relates to diverse changing tumour microenvironments and their impact on cancer cell population...
 
The Medical News • Apr 15, 2020  15:34
The discovery that immune T cells have a spectrum of responsiveness could shed light on how our immune system responds to infections and...
our immune system responds to infections and cancer, and what goes wrong in immune diseases. Researchers at the Wellcome...
 
The Medical News • Apr 15, 2020  3:52
A drug that is well-tolerated in patients and prevents cancer coming back in mice has been identified by researchers at the Francis Crick...
cancer coming back in mice has been identified by researchers at the Francis Crick Institute. One of the biggest...