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The Australian Government has announced $35.9M funding for rare cancers, rare diseases and unmet medical needs. The University of Melbourne was awarded $2.4M for a novel radiopharmaceutical trial for patients with Cancer of Unknown Primary.

Death rates from cancer for Indigenous Australians continue to rise, an increase of 21% compared to a decrease of 13% for the general population.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has developed an online program, using cognitive-behavioural therapy, for AYA cancer survivors to alleviate insomnia and improve quality of life.

 
Research
The Medical News • Jun 26, 2020  8:9
The ability to sequence the genome of a tumor has revolutionized cancer treatment over the last 15 years by identifying drivers of cancer ...
Single-cell sequencing method reveals possible evolutionary trajectories of cancer cells
 
The Medical News • Jun 25, 2020  8:3
An international research team led by Dr. Tali Ilovitsh of the Biomedical Engineering Department at Tel Aviv University developed a ...
Researchers develop a noninvasive technology to destroy cancer cells
 
The Medical News • Jun 25, 2020  7:30
A research team from the Prodi Centre for Protein Diagnostics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) has used infrared (IR) microscopes based on ...
Automated classification of colorectal cancer using IR imaging
 
Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Jun 24, 2020  9:20
Griffith University researchers, in collaboration with the University of Queensland, have identified magnetic nanoparticles, nanozymes, ...
Enhanced cancer detection using magnetic nanoparticles containing gold-loaded iron oxide.
 
 
Treatment
Sunshine Coast Daily (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Jun 25, 2020  20:15
Cancer patients may have been subjected to doses of radiation too strong or too weak to safely fight their disease...
. "Safer Care Victoria and the dedicated clinicians at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Bendigo and Bendigo Health have acted ...
 
Herald Globe • Jun 25, 2020  17:29
Washington D.C. [USA], June 25 (ANI): A new study has suggested that people with inoperable anal cancer treated with carboplatin-paclitaxel...
Study shows better option for treatment of inoperable anal cancer
 
The Medical News • Jun 23, 2020  18:51
News-Medical talks to Professor David Thomas about his recent research identifying the mechanisms behind cancer cells developing resistance...
Australia’s leading adolescent and young adult cancer unit at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. Dr. Thomas leads the ...
 
 
Population Health
ABC Radio Melbourne • Jun 24, 2020  19:35
Over the past 18 years, death rates from cancer in the general Australian population have fallen by 13 per cent. But the rates for ...
Rising Indigenous cancer death rates are being overlooked, experts say
 
The Medical News • Jun 23, 2020  0:51
Adolescents and young adults (AYA) who have survived cancer often continue to suffer from insomnia long after treatment ends, interfering ...
daily activities. In a study published today by Pediatric Blood and Cancer, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer...
 
 
Funding
Australian National University • Jun 24, 2020  16:39
Life-saving research into how the human immune system can hunt down and eradicate cancer has been given an $8 million boost from Canberra's...
Life-saving research into how the human immune system can hunt down and eradicate cancer has been given an $8 million ...
 
The Department of Health • Jun 24, 2020  9:17
A media release about a $35.9 million Australian Government investment in 17 cutting-edge research projects, including projects to improve ...
research. Further information about the Medical Research Future Fund is available at www.health.gov.au/mrff. Institution ...