Australian Minister for Health, Greg Hunt MP announced access to Kymriah, a CAR T-cell therapy, through the public health system; Novartis will partner with Peter Mac to manufacture the therapy. In a separate announcement, Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Brendan Murphy, has been appointed the new Secretary for the Department of Health. An analysis of Australian Institute of Health and Welfare compared current and past lifetime risks of cancer, the result has led researchers to conclude about 11,000 women and 18,000 men are overdiagnosed each year. Professor Bowtell and Dr Au-Yeung from Peter Mac talk to Dr Norman Swan about the advances in diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cancer. Cardiff University researchers have discovered a type of immune cell which recognises and kills most human cancer types, while ignoring healthy cells. |
| | | Monday 20 January - Tuesday 28 January | | | The Age (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Jan 28, 2020 0:1 | | | 'Cutting edge' $500,000 treatment for aggressive blood cancers Australians battling highly aggressive blood cancers could start a groundbreaking treatment within weeks, after the... be curative" in some cases. Health Minister Greg Hunt said between 200 and 250 extra cancer patients were expected to... |
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| | Medical Journal of Australia • Jan 27, 2020 0:18 | | | Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia The known: Overdiagnosis of some common cancers is a problem in developed countries, including Australia. The new: After analysing changes... Estimating the magnitude of cancer overdiagnosis in Australia |
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| | Mirage News • Jan 25, 2020 20:2 | | | Multicentre study to research why cancer survival differs between patients A new multidisciplinary study involving six universities is to investigate why some patients who have had advanced cancer remain well after... cancer remain well after treatment. Funded by three time cancer survivor Dr James Hull, the research team will be based... |
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| | Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Jan 24, 2020 21:27 | | | Cell network mapping reveals rewiring in colorectal cancer An international consortium of researchers from Australia, Ireland, the UK, Europe, and Canada, has painstakingly mapped an intracellular... Cell network mapping reveals rewiring in colorectal cancer |
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| | ABC News • Jan 24, 2020 13:29 | | | Advances in ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment Coming soon. This audio is not yet available. On Health Report with Dr Norman Swan Three recent papers in the New England Journal of... Advances in ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment |
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| | The University of Queensland • Jan 23, 2020 9:0 | | | UQ expert in visual neuroscience has international award in his sights Pioneering discoveries about the ‘extraordinarily strange’ visual systems of shrimps - that could improve early detection of cancer - have... improve early detection of cancer - have been recognised with an international prize. University of Queensland... |
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| | The Department of Health • Jan 22, 2020 9:22 | | | Department of Health Secretary Statement regarding the retirement of Ms Glenys Beauchamp PSM. , Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute and the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre. I believe his appointment will... |
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| | The Medical News • Jan 22, 2020 4:58 | | | Study finds new strategies for developing cancer drug After years of research on cell surface receptors called Frizzleds, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden provide the... Study finds new strategies for developing cancer drug |
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| | The Medical News • Jan 21, 2020 11:49 | | | Study uncovers anticancer potential of many non-oncology drugs Drugs for diabetes, inflammation, alcoholism -- and even for treating arthritis in dogs -- can also kill cancer cells in the lab, according... scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The researchers systematically... |
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| | Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Jan 21, 2020 9:59 | | | Immune cell receptor can target and kill many types of cancer cell An immune cell receptor that targets and kills multiple types of cancer cell has been found by international and Australian researchers,... types of cancer cell has been found by international and Australian researchers, opening up exciting opportunities for... |
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