Research Type: Extramural
Cancer Council researchers have found lung cancer rates for women are still rising. Calculating cancer trends provides vital data to help plan health care needs of future patients.
We found the number of men dying from prostate cancer in Australia is not declining at the rate seen in other countries. New projects are looking at ways to better manage prostate cancer.
Professor Murray Norris and his team developed a pioneering tool that is improving the survival of children with leukaemia by stopping the cancer from returning.
Our National Pro Bono service provides people affected by cancer with free legal and financial assistance, helping them to navigate the issues that come with a cancer diagnosis.
Professor Samuel Breit has unlocked a new way of stopping prostate cancer and other common cancers in their tracks through targeting a protein involved in tumour development.
Chemotherapy is the most common treatment for triple negative breast cancer, but the disease often comes back. Prof Baxter’s team is studying possible new drug combinations.
Bowel cancer development is driven by a molecular network that helps the cancer cells to grow and survive. Professor Zhang are exploring whether this network could be targeted and blocked.