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Professor Andrew Roberts has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2020 Queens’s Birthday Honours, he is a scientist-clinician at WEHI, RMH and Peter Mac, as well as VCCC Research & Education Lead, Haematology and the Metcalf Chair of Leukaemia Research at UniMelb. Australian Government announced $13.6M investment in clinical trials to find cancer treatments for melanoma, reproductive and gynaecological cancers and childhood brain cancer. The listing of Revlimid® (lenalidomide) on the PBS Highly Specialised Drugs Program is expanded, to allow use in combination with Velcade® (bortezomib) and dexamethasone for previously untreated multiple myeloma. The Victorian COVID-19 Cancer Network (VCCN) Telehealth Expert Group advocates the need to establish evidence-based, patient-centred and sustainable telehealth in cancer management.
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| | | Awards |  |  | https://www.nationaltribune.com.au • Jun 8, 2020 9:30 |  | | Blood cancer researcher and haematologist Professor Andrew Roberts has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2020... Blood cancer researcher and haematologist Professor Andrew Roberts has been appointed a Member of the Order of Australia... |
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| | | Clinical Trials | | | The Department of Health • Jun 7, 2020 18:44 | | | A media release about a $13.6 million Australian Government investment to support 10 clinical trials to find innovative cancer treatments... . Each of the aforementioned clinical trials is backed by the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) through which $614... |
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| | The Medical News • Jun 4, 2020 15:20 | | | Social media is an integral part of medicine and an increasingly important conduit for sharing information about clinical trials. In an... trials. In an article in JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, researchers from SWOG Cancer Research... |
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| | | COVID-19 and Cancer | | | Insight Plus • Jun 8, 2020 0:26 | | | From the New England Journal of Medicine A randomized trial of hydroxychloroquine as postexposure prophylaxis for COVID-19: “After... collaborative initiative between the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) and Monash Partners Comprehensive... |
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| | The Medical News • Jun 3, 2020 8:19 | | | One of the first studies to investigate the outcome of COVID-19 infection in patients with blood cancer has been conducted by clinical... cancer has been conducted by clinical researchers from Queen Mary University of London and Barts Health NHS Trust.... |
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| | Monash University • Jun 1, 2020 13:21 | | | Australian women are encouraged to get early and regular check-ups for breast cancer to avoid long-term increases in medical bills. Women... Royal Women's Hospital and University of Melbourne); Hannah Bromley (University of Birmingham and University of... |
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| | | Treatment | | | The West Australian (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Jun 6, 2020 16:45 | | | A 13-year-old boy who has battled cancer for a long time has become the first child in the world to receive an... 13-year-old Perth boy first child in the world to receive experimental cancer drug Entinostat |
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| | The Medical News • Jun 5, 2020 0:57 | | | The international study "Resistance to targeted therapies as a multifactorial, gradual adaptation to inhibitor specific selective... New therapeutic strategies for treating lung cancer |
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| | Herald Sun (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Jun 5, 2020 0:0 | | | A glimmer of hope has been given to metastatic breast cancer sufferers with a drug that can slow the progression of... of cancer made available to more people in Australia. The Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) will today announce a new access... |
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| | ABC News • Jun 3, 2020 14:32 | | | The opening date of a new radiation oncology centre in north-west Victoria, that was meant to be up and running by October, has been pushed... Regional cancer treatment centre delayed, leaving patients waiting for local radiotherapy |
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| | The Department of Health • Jun 1, 2020 10:58 | | | Australians with asthma and multiple myeloma will have broader access to life changing medicines as a result of expanded medicines listings... Expanded PBS medicines listings to provide new treatment options for over 170,000 asthmatics, and new hope for blood cancer... |
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| | | Research | | | Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Jun 5, 2020 4:33 | | | Garvan researchers reveal the tactic that cancer cells use to adapt and evade treatment. Cancer cells can turn on error-prone DNA copy... at the University of Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Peter... |
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| | The Medical News • Jun 2, 2020 7:51 | | | Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have uncovered how cancer cells protect themselves from viruses that are harmful to tumors but... Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have uncovered how cancer cells protect themselves from viruses that are... |
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| | Mirage News • Jun 2, 2020 5:0 | | | Engineers design nanoparticles that stimulate the immune system, helping it to attack tumors. An image captured through transmission... A boost for cancer immunotherapy |
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