Blog Topic: Research
Cancer Council NSW is excited to announce that over $10.6 million in new funding has been awarded to 17 outstanding cancer research projects. The grants will help fund future breakthroughs in cancer research – the awarded research teams are leading the charge towards a cancer free future by investigating new ways to treat the […]
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) awards multimillion dollar grant to group of cervical cancer prevention experts led by Cancer Council and Victorian Cytology Service. Authors: Adjunct Professor Karen Canfell, Associate Professor Marion Saville and Associate Professor Julia Brotherton Australia has led the world in cervical cancer prevention for decades, both in vaccination and screening. […]
Authors: Adjunct Professor Karen Canfell and Associate Professor Marion Saville As Australia prepares to transition to a new National Cervical Screening Program in December, a research study has found that Human Papillomavirus (HPV) screening is more effective at detecting high-grade cervical abnormalities than Pap tests. The study, called Compass, is a timely confirmation of just how effective […]
Australia has one of the highest rates of bowel cancer in the world. The lifetime risk of developing bowel cancer before the age of 75 is around one in 19 for men and one in 28 for women. This makes bowel – or colorectal – cancer the third most common cancer in Australia and the […]
We know that smoking is the primary factor that puts people at risk for lung cancer: 80 per cent of lung cancers are in people who were smokers. We also know that early diagnosis of lung cancer is difficult, as the symptoms can often be vague and non-specific, and so the majority of cases are […]
Cancer Council NSW is excited to announce that nearly $6million has been awarded to 15 ground-breaking cancer research projects. The grants help fund future breakthroughs in cancer research, with 15 of Australia’s leading research teams paving the way for new ways to treat the disease. The project grants were awarded on Wednesday 1 March at […]
Australia has been at the forefront of cervical cancer prevention for decades, and continues to take the lead – we are the first nation in the world to implement large-scale changes to cervical screening as a direct response to the successful implementation of HPV vaccination. This year, the National Cervical Screening Program is due to […]
A new study released by Cancer Council NSW today has found no reduction in unhealthy food and drink advertisements on television during children’s peak viewing times, despite the fact that the food industry introduced voluntary self-regulatory initiatives in 2009. We found that children are being exposed to an average of three unhealthy food advertisements every […]
Cancer Council NSW helped fund one of the biggest discoveries in skin cancer research – that vitamin B3 can help reduce non-melanoma skin cancers. Five years after this grant ended, we have caught up with lead researcher, Professor Diona Damian, to hear the latest on her pioneering work. It all began in 2008, when Cancer […]
Image courtesy of University of Queensland Faculty of Medicine. We have now reached a huge milestone in cervical cancer prevention: every woman in Australia aged 35 years and younger is better protected against HPV than ever before. HPV – the human papillomavirus – is the cause of virtually all cervical cancers, so this is a […]