Oncology
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Cancer Australia provides new childhood cancer clues AAP - 31-08-2018
Cancer Australia has produced the world's first national data on diagnosis and survival rates relating to 16 common childhood cancers.
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The Leukaemia Foundation announces new multi-million dollar research program HealthTimes - 21-08-2018
The Leukaemia Foundation has today announced a new national multi-million dollar research strategy to beat blood cancers like leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
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Cancer patients and oncologists are calling for more cancer drugs to be subsidised on the PBS AAP - 14-08-2018
Cancer patients and oncologists are calling for more cancer drugs to be subsidised on the PBS amid fears thousands of people are missing out on treatments because
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Australian scientists have developed a new drug that can put cancer cells to sleep permanently AAP - 02-08-2018
A new type of drug that puts cancer cells to "sleep" has been discovered by Australian scientists, raising hopes that it could one day be a powerful new
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Australian women at high risk of ovarian cancer will trial a new detection screening test AAP - 30-07-2018
A new trial designed in Melbourne to detect ovarian cancer will be able to help hundreds of Australian women, a report says. Australian women
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Australian scientists have discovered that chromosome loops is a key to killing cancer AAP - 20-07-2018
Australian scientists have discovered that changes to the structure in part of our chromosomes could be to blame for cancer and some genetic diseases. Controlling
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Australian scientists have developed the world's first blood test to detect melanoma AAP - 18-07-2018
Plans for the world's first blood test to detect early-stage melanoma have been unveiled by Australian scientists. Early trials of the
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A children's brain cancer treatment trial is getting a $5 million boost from the federal government AAP - 16-07-2018
Toddler Kristian Kozul's aggressive brain tumour has stopped growing since joining a life-saving cancer trial being rolled out across Australia.
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Federal government will subsidise four life-saving cancer drugs next month AAP - 16-07-2018
The federal government will subsidise a cancer drug that gives hope to mantle cell lymphoma patients who suffer a relapse along with three other cancer drugs.
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A new blood test may boost lung cancer detection AAP - 13-07-2018
A new blood test developed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer may help improve the early detection of lung cancer among smokers.
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A Cancer Council NSW study has exposed inequities in the treatment of lung cancer patients AAP - 28-06-2018
As many as one-in-three lung cancer patients visit their GP multiple times before eventually presenting to emergency, acutely unwell, prior to their diagnosis, a Cancer
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New hope for stage-three melanoma AAP - 26-06-2018
Melbourne man Peter Gourlay has funded his own cancer treatment for stage three melanoma but the costs are prohibitive. After witnessing family
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Dermatologists are urging men to stop ignoring their risk of skin cancer AAP - 06-06-2018
A survey shows less than one in three Australian men consider themselves at risk of skin cancer, raising concern among dermatologists. Australian
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Hope for patients with advanced skin cancer AAP - 05-06-2018
A clinical trial has shown patients with advanced skin cancer respond well to immunotherapy drug Cemiplimab. Australian doctors have made a
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New hope for drug resistant cancers as Griffith drug goes on trial in Czech Republic HealthTimes - 04-06-2018
Patients with drug resistant forms of breast cancer and some forms of pancreatic cancer may have new hope, thanks to a new drug first developed at Griffith and now being trialled
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A new report shows bowel cancer screening is saving lives AAP - 31-05-2018
A new report shows people who don't participate in the National Bowel Cancer Screening program are 13 per cent more likely to die from the disease.
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Hope for a deadly form of brain cancer AAP - 30-05-2018
Interim results from a clinical trial into glioblastoma - a deadly form of brain cancer - are encouraging, the Cure Brain Cancer Foundation says.
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Prostate cancer curable when diagnosed early AAP - 28-05-2018
Men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer may miss out on being cured of the disease because they are not monitoring their condition closely.
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Australian researchers have developed a new drug to treat an aggressive form of breast cancer AAP - 17-05-2018
Scientists at the Centenary Institute hope to trial a new drug on triple-negative breast cancer patients in the next three years. Australian
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Radioactive material, hope for men with advanced prostate cancer AAP - 09-05-2018
A highly-targeted treatment that uses a radioactive material has delivered some striking early results in men with advanced prostate cancer.
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