Monday 20 April – Monday 27 April Patients with cancer or symptoms are urged to seek medical treatment as data shows referrals are markedly down. Indigenous Australians as more likely to be impacted by respiratory viruses, in combination with existing increased risk in heart and kidney diseases, as well as specific cancers, Indigenous health expert leadership required to lead the way during the pandemic. Peter Mac collaboration discoveries approach to prostate cancer treatment, reprogramming cancer cells to re-express a protein to make them visible to immune cells. US Researchers used CRISPR technology to identify key regulators of aggressive chronic myeloid leukeamia. New US study identified several small molecules that appear to reverse the cellular aging process, impacting telomere diseases. |
| | | Primary care |  |  | Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Apr 27, 2020 0:21 |  | | Aussies may experience poorer health outcomes unless recognition and funding of general practice research is boosted with investment in... the importance of general practice to health outcomes, the current Medical Research Future Fund 2019-2020 budget allows for only... |
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| | The Advertiser (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Apr 21, 2020 7:4 | | | Screening for bowel cancer at a younger age based on family history could improve early detection and in some cases... Younger age bowel cancer testing urged |
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| | | COVID-19 and cancer | | | The Age (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Apr 26, 2020 16:11 | | | Cancer referrals at Australia's leading oncology centres have plummeted by up to 30 per cent, fuelling concerns... cancer which is something we must avoid at all costs," Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre’s Professor Grant McArthur said. The... |
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| | The Conversation [AU] • Apr 24, 2020 15:28 | | | Disclosure statement Fiona Stanley has received funding from the ARC and NHMRC in the past and has some current funding.... funding. Sandra Eades has received and currently holds NHMRC and MRFF funding in the area of Indigenous health.... |
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| | News Mail (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Apr 23, 2020 7:20 | | | Exclusive: Cancer, heart disease and diabetes are going undiagnosed as Australians fearful of COVID-19 avoid their... their doctor and cancer screening services were closed, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre's Professor Grant McArthur told News... |
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| | The Age (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Apr 22, 2020 17:50 | | | The family of a Victorian cancer patient who died in an isolation ward while awaiting a coronavirus test say they... Wadhwa. Professor Grant McArthur, executive director of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, said he had heard concern from... |
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| | MSN - Australia • Apr 22, 2020 11:44 | | | Clinical trials are being shuttered in increasing numbers in Australia because of the risks posed by COVID-19, but two companies ... Read... Cancer clinical trials continue as others are shut down on COVID-19 fears |
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| | | AI | | | Mirage News • Apr 24, 2020 3:46 | | | Cancer cells not only ravage the body – they also compete with each other. Cornell mathematicians are using game theory to model how this... Game theory suggests more efficient cancer therapy |
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| | Yahoo!7 Finance • Apr 23, 2020 22:10 | | | Medical doctor touching virtual interface button of healthcare application, concept about health technology isolate background The round... Paige adds $5M from Goldman Sachs to double down on AI-based cancer therapies |
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| | The Medical News • Apr 22, 2020 2:54 | | | Brain cancer patients in the coming years may not need to go under the knife to help doctors determine the best treatment for their tumors.... AI may help eliminate use of biopsy for brain cancer patients |
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| | The Medical News • Apr 21, 2020 21:18 | | | Putting together research for publication can be a challenging and time-consuming process, heightened even further because of the current... Machine learning helps researchers to distinguish a rare subtype of kidney cancer |
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| | | Research | | | The Medical News • Apr 22, 2020 8:0 | | | Capping decades of research, a new study may offer a breakthrough in treating dyskeratosis congenita and other so-called telomere diseases,... prematurely. Using cells donated by patients with the disease, researchers at the Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer... |
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| | Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Apr 21, 2020 20:23 | | | A new approach to prostate cancer treatment, tested in mice, increases the visibility of prostate cancer cells that have spread to bone for... Immune system key to reducing the growth of prostate cancer spread to bone |
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| | The Medical News • Apr 21, 2020 8:22 | | | A team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used CRISPR technology to identify... A team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used CRISPR... |
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