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Ovarian Cancer
The Guardian • Oct 18, 2020  3:0
The winning essay in the Max Perutz science writing award 2020
Curing the incurable: teaching an old drug new tricks to fight ovarian cancer
 
 
Melanoma
The Medical News • Oct 17, 2020  0:8
An Edith Cowan University (ECU) study has revealed that a key blood marker of cancer could be used to select the most effective treatment ...
recruited in collaboration with the Melanoma Institute Australia and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. The research also found that ...
 
Mirage News • Oct 15, 2020  5:27
UCLA Dr. Anusha Kalbasi (left) and Dr. Antoni Ribas Researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that a drug that...
Anusha Kalbasi (left) and Dr. Antoni Ribas Researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that a ...
 
MSN - Australia • Oct 14, 2020  21:26
Australian researchers have treated a form of skin cancer with a modified version of the common cold virus.
Australian researchers have treated a form of skin cancer with a modified version of the common cold virus.
 
 
Grants
Pharma in Focus • Oct 16, 2020  7:3
CSL has granted two Australian scientists $1.25 million each to further research to fight two of the world's biggest health challenges - ...
$1.25 million each to further research to fight two of the world's biggest health challenges - cancer and infectious ...
 
The National Tribune • Oct 13, 2020  13:57
The Victorian Chapter of the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes (VicAAMRI) of which Burnet Institute is a member, is ...
investment in medical research through the AUD$20 billion Medical Research Future Fund, Professor Crabb believes it’s important to...
 
 
Breast Cancer
Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Oct 16, 2020  2:1
Findings by Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) researchers have pointed to a new combination of treatments that may help breast ...
Discovery Institute (BDI) researchers have pointed to a new combination of treatments that may help breast cancer ...
 
 
Immunotherapy
Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Oct 13, 2020  18:30
Immune T cells that kill cancer swarm to tumours by following a chemical gradient left by other T cells, a pre-clinical study by UNSW ...
Cancer-killing T cells ‘swarm’ to tumours, attracting others to the fight
 
 
Pancreatic Cancer
The Australian • Oct 13, 2020  16:34
Amplia Therapeutics chief science officer Mark Devlin, left, acting chief executive of Cancer Therapeutics CRC Lisa Dube, and Amplia...
 
 
Blood Cancers
ABC Radio Melbourne • Oct 12, 2020  23:43
More than 17,000 Australians are being diagnosed each year with one of the three major types of blood cancer, namely leukaemia, lymphoma ...
haematologist and Metcalf Chair of Leukaemia Research at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne Brett Conley, a young ...
 
 
Lung Cancer
The Guardian • Oct 12, 2020  23:35
Referrals currently at 60% of pre-pandemic levels, figures from Cancer Research UK show
Referrals currently at 60% of pre-pandemic levels, figures from Cancer Research UK show
 
 
Prostrate Cancer
The Medical Republic • Oct 12, 2020  16:35
A new study shows men in private hospitals are almost twice as likely to have invasive treatments than their peers in the public system, ...
Invasive prostate cancer treatments almost double in private patients
 
Ausdoc • Oct 12, 2020  16:26
Government funding of multiparametric MRI of the prostate is also increasing equity in healthcare, clinicians say
Imaging reduces prostate cancer biopsies: study