Tag: cancer research
Lung cancer is one of Australia’s biggest killers, with the highest mortality rate of any cancer in the country and a low five-year survival rate. This is partly because lung cancer is often not detected until it’s too late for treatment to be effective. However, if caught early, most types of lung cancer are treatable […]
The Pathways Breast Cancer Team: Dr Louiza Velentzis, Dr Carolyn Nickson and Dr Pietro Procopio Sadly, breast cancer remains the second most common cause of cancer death in Australian women, with over 18,000 Australian women diagnosed each year. That is why, with your support, we established the Pathways Breast Cancer Team. The team is […]
Written by Dr Amy Vassallo and Gabriella Tiernan — Bias exists in many aspects of our culture. Gender bias is a significant issue which permeates our media, entertainment and other sources of popular culture that are widely consumed. This means there is a lack of diverse female voices being heard and perpetuates an unequal picture […]
Author: Chloe Jennett, Compass Trial Project Coordinator Have you heard the news? Cervical cancer is on the way out! Thanks to an early national adoption of HPV vaccination and a world class screening program, Australia is on track to be the first country to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem, by as early […]
Researchers at the Children’s Medical Research Institute and St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research have uncovered a mechanism that makes cancer cells immortal and identified potential treatment options that could help kill aggressive cells. What makes cancer cells immortal The normal cells that make up our body divide throughout our lives to ensure our bodies […]
Cancer Council NSW invests over $18 million into cancer research every year. To make sure that the research we fund and conduct has real-world benefits, we involve members of the community in our work. These ‘consumers’ help us choose what research we fund and shape how that research is conducted. Consumers have typically been personally […]
Each year at around this time, we put a call out for participants in our Consumer Involvement in Research training courses. You may (or may not) have heard about the program in the past and wondered “Is that something I could do?” Anyone can participate in the training. The term ‘consumer’ refers to anyone who has […]
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 […]
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 […]