Topic: Cancer research
If successful, this study should significantly improve the patient care of those suffering with advanced liver cancer by making drug treatment more effective.
The aim of this project is to discover which melanoma patients will benefit the most from the use of BET inhibitor drug treatment.
This project aims to find out how certain immune cells could be controlled and how they might be used to predict who will respond to immunotherapy.
If this treatment is shown to be effective, it will provide much-needed hope for patients who receive the devastating diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.
This project will test and validate how new technologies could be utilised to monitor the concentration of chemotherapy in a patient’s blood in real-time.
Research shows Australia is on track to become the first country in the world to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem.
Research has revealed the cost of cancer to the Australian health system to be over $6 billion a year.
A synthetic retinoid (a compound derived from vitamin A) has been found to acts powerfully against Diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG) cells.
Professor Xu Dong Zhang found the loss of a certain protein could cause melanoma to spread. When the team restored this protein back to normal levels, melanoma growth was stopped.
This study of 9,000 participants found that physical activity has the potential to lower someone’s cancer risk regardless of their body weight.