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  • Precision medicine pipeline may improve drug treatment for pancreatic cancer

    …of the least survivable forms of cancer, pancreatic cancer, and provide some hope to these patients. “Pancreatic cancer has an overall five year survival rate of around five to seven……  Read more

    Dr Daniel Croagh and Professor Brendan Jenkins at Hudson Institute

  • Lifesaving ‘off-the-shelf’ cancer tracking immunotherapies underway

    …the power of a patient’s immune system to fight cancer — as opposed to traditional cancer therapies, which use chemotherapy drugs and radiation to kill cancer cells. CAR-T cells (chimeric……  Read more

    Professor Alan Trounson

  • One-two punch could knock out rare ovarian cancer

    …this research focused on granulosa cell tumours of the ovary, outcomes from this study may have broader impacts, including potential treatments for epithelial ovarian cancer, colorectal cancer and thyroid cancer….…  Read more

    Dr Simon Chu from the Hormone Cancer Therapeutics Research Group at Hudson Institute

  • Can the body’s signalling protein be harnessed to stop ovarian cancer?

    …cancer. Their work involves harnessing the body’s own system of signaling proteins to fight ovarian cancer, with their latest research now published in the influential journal Nature. “Last year more……  Read more

    Professor Paul Hertzog, Dr Zoe Marks, Dr Nicole Campbell and Dr Nollaig Bourke with Ovarian Cancer discovery at Hudson Institute

  • The power of IFN-e: ovarian cancer breakthrough

    …tract called interferon epsilon (IFN-e). Ovarian cancer statistics Last year more than 1,000 Australians died of ovarian cancer, The likelihood of living more than five years with the disease is……  Read more

    Professor Paul Hertzog and Dr Nicole Campbell

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    …technology and data science offer new hope for cancer outcomes. Inflammation Cancer Women’s and Newborn health Cancers we research Sarcoma Blood cancer Bowel cancer Childhood cancer Lung cancer Ovarian cancer……  Read more

  • Stem cell therapies receive MRFF funding

    …were funded through the MRFF Clinical Trials Activity (Rare Cancers, Rare Diseases and Unmet Need) – Childhood Brain Cancer Opportunity, which will enable ANZCHOG to continue to provide Australian children……  Read more

    Associate Professor Rebecca Lim from the Amnion Cell Biology Research Group at Hudson Institute

  • Paving the way for an endometrial cancer early detection test

    …of the most common gynaecological cancers diagnosed in Australian women. In 2017, it’s predicted there will be 2861 new cases of endometrial cancer and 453 deaths from endometrial cancer in……  Read more

  • Protein key to endometrial cancer spread identified

    …depending on the type of cancer, and has been investigated in other female cancers including ovarian, breast and cervical cancer. Until now, its role in endometrial cancer was unknown. Drugs……  Read more