Blog Topic: Research
Last night, almost $9 million of new funding was awarded to 13 ground-breaking cancer research projects at the 2019 Cancer Council NSW Research Awards. The chosen world-class research teams are leading the charge towards a cancer free future by investigating new ways to diagnose and treat the disease. Funds have been awarded to projects deemed […]
This year, we’re excited to grant almost $9 million in funding to 13 new research projects at our annual Research Awards night. As always, we received dozens of worthy funding applications, which raises the question: How do we choose which research projects to fund? Every eligible research proposal submitted to us is reviewed by both a […]
When I was just 6 years old, my Grandfather passed away after many years of suffering with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, caused by smoking. My very few memories of him were of him bed ridden, requiring the support of an oxygen machine to breathe for years on end. I barely knew my Grandfather, and sadly […]
Today is International Women’s Day and we thought it would be a great opportunity to highlight a couple of our incredible female researchers, who are making their impact felt working on two of the most common women’s cancers. Dr Megan Smith leads the high-income country work done by the Cervix/HPV group here at Cancer Council […]
HPV – the ‘common cold’ of sexual activity Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are very common sexually transmitted viruses of which there are many types. HPV is sometimes referred to as the ‘common cold’ of sexual activity; prior to the advent of HPV vaccination, it was estimated that around 80% of people were infected with at least one […]
This year, do you think it would be more likely for a loved one of yours to die in a car accident or from bowel cancer? If you answered ‘car accident’ then you’ll be shocked to know that in Australia there are about five times more deaths from bowel cancer than road fatalities every year[1]! […]
Eliminating cancer has long seemed an unobtainable goal – but we are close to seeing that dream become reality for one of the world’s most common cancers. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently called for international action to eliminate cervical cancer, which is viewed as a highly preventable cancer. New results from our team at […]
With funding from Cancer Council NSW, researchers have discovered an underlying cause for treatment resistance in lung cancer. The team, led by Professor Neil Watkins at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, has also discovered a naturally occurring hormone which could be used to reverse this treatment resistance and improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy. We […]
A new study by Cancer Council NSW has found that Australia’s renewed cervical screening program, which came into place on 1 December 2017, will lead to dramatically lowered cervical cancer incidence and mortality in Australian women. This work is part of an NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Cervical Cancer Control which involves collaboration between […]
“Did you smoke?” This is probably the most common question that lung cancer patients and survivors are faced with after their diagnosis. And it’s an issue: the stigma attached to a lung cancer diagnosis results in physical, psychological and societal harm that doesn’t get addressed frequently enough. Today, I’m speaking at the Australian Lung Cancer […]