The Australian Government has announced MRFF investments of $8M for clinical trials and $150M for stem cell therapies. An additional $3M has been committed to a medicinal cannabis trial. WEHI researchers are testing the effectiveness of Denosumab in a clinical trial to decrease the risk of breast cancer for women who carry a BRCA1 gene mutation. Genetic testing for all women with breast cancer is more cost-effective than testing based on family history or clinical criteria, according to University of Melbourne, Monash and UK researchers. |
| | | Monday 30 September - Monday 7 October |  |  | ABC News • Oct 6, 2019 21:5 |  | | It’s starting to look like an outright cure for cancer is off the table for now. So if we can’t make cancer disappear altogether, is it... Why we can't cure cancer |
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| | The Mercury (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Oct 6, 2019 10:58 | | | The federal government is providing $3 million to investigate how medicinal cannabis can help cancer patients. Morrison Government invests $3m in medicinal cannabis research for cancer treatment |
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| | Herald Sun (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Oct 5, 2019 0:25 | | | Professor Clare Scott from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre says up to 1,500 Australian women will be diagnosed... from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre says up to 1,500 Australian women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer every year. Ovarian Cancer is |
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| | The Medical News • Oct 4, 2019 17:27 | | | Faults in two genes directly work together to bring about the deadliest form of blood cancer, scientists have discovered in a study that... Targeting two genetic faults in cancer cells could hold the key to treating leukemia |
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| | Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Oct 4, 2019 1:4 | | | Providing multiple genetic testing to all women with breast cancer, regardless of their family history, is more cost-effective than testing... , according to Australian and international researchers. The researchers say testing all women diagnosed with breast cancer for BRCA1/BRCA2 |
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| | The Department of Health • Oct 3, 2019 10:37 | | | The Australian Government is investing $8 million in world-class clinical trials focusing on conditions affecting the heart, preterm baby... -led trials will receive funding from the Government’s Medical Research Future Fund International Clinical Trial Collaborations program. |
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| | The Department of Health • Oct 2, 2019 9:58 | | | This is the next step in the $150 million Stem Cell Therapies Mission, helping world-class Australian researchers further investigate new... health-economics-and-research-division/mrff-stem-cell-therapies-mission Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) program contact Contact for more |
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| | Wellness Daily • Oct 1, 2019 4:41 | | | Today sees the official launch of a clinical trial being led in Australia by Breast Cancer Trials. Geoff Lindeman, based at The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre. “These women have |
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| | Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Sep 27, 2019 1:31 | | | Melbourne researchers from Peter Mac, in collaboration with Cancer Research UK, have uncovered a new way that some human cancers can hide... : Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Tassie Devils hold clue for how human cancers evade the immune system Melbourne researchers from Peter Mac, |
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