Monday 20 April – Monday 27 April Patients with cancer or symptoms are urged to seek medical treatment as data shows referrals are markedly down. Indigenous Australians as more likely to be impacted by respiratory viruses, in combination with existing increased risk in heart and kidney diseases, as well as specific cancers, Indigenous health expert leadership required to lead the way during the pandemic. Peter Mac collaboration discoveries approach to prostate cancer treatment, reprogramming cancer cells to re-express a protein to make them visible to immune cells. US Researchers used CRISPR technology to identify key regulators of aggressive chronic myeloid leukeamia. New US study identified several small molecules that appear to reverse the cellular aging process, impacting telomere diseases. |
| | | Primary care | | | Science Media Exchange - Scimex • Apr 27, 2020 0:21 | | | Neglecting general practice research risks poor health outcomes Aussies may experience poorer health outcomes unless recognition and funding of general practice research is boosted with investment in... the importance of general practice to health outcomes, the current Medical Research Future Fund 2019-2020 budget allows for only... |
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| | The Advertiser (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Apr 21, 2020 7:4 | | | Younger age bowel cancer testing urged Screening for bowel cancer at a younger age based on family history could improve early detection and in some cases... Younger age bowel cancer testing urged |
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| | | COVID-19 and cancer | | | The Age (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Apr 26, 2020 16:11 | | | Fears seriously ill people going unchecked as cancer referrals plummet Cancer referrals at Australia's leading oncology centres have plummeted by up to 30 per cent, fuelling concerns... cancer which is something we must avoid at all costs," Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre’s Professor Grant McArthur said. The... |
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| | News Mail (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Apr 23, 2020 7:20 | | | How fear of COVID-19 is putting Aussie patients at risk Exclusive: Cancer, heart disease and diabetes are going undiagnosed as Australians fearful of COVID-19 avoid their... their doctor and cancer screening services were closed, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre's Professor Grant McArthur told News... |
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| | The Age (Licensed by Copyright Agency) • Apr 22, 2020 17:50 | | | Hospital apologises over death of cancer patient in COVID-19 isolation The family of a Victorian cancer patient who died in an isolation ward while awaiting a coronavirus test say they... Wadhwa. Professor Grant McArthur, executive director of the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre, said he had heard concern from... |
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| | | AI | | | Mirage News • Apr 24, 2020 3:46 | | | Game theory suggests more efficient cancer therapy Cancer cells not only ravage the body – they also compete with each other. Cornell mathematicians are using game theory to model how this... Game theory suggests more efficient cancer therapy |
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| | | Research | | | The Medical News • Apr 22, 2020 8:0 | | | New study may offer a breakthrough in treating telomere diseases Capping decades of research, a new study may offer a breakthrough in treating dyskeratosis congenita and other so-called telomere diseases,... prematurely. Using cells donated by patients with the disease, researchers at the Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer... |
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| | The Medical News • Apr 21, 2020 8:22 | | | Using genome-wide CRISPR technology to identify leukemia's weakness A team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used CRISPR technology to identify... A team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used CRISPR... |
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