Type: Lung cancer
The project has strong potential to achieve major benefits for patient care, because it brings the concept of personalised medicine much closer to reality.
Professor David Watkins and his team have discovered a previously unknown reason for treatment resistance in lung cancer.
A study by Cancer Council NSW has revealed that over 1 in 3 lung cancer patients seek emergency care around the time of diagnosis.
Research has revealed the cost of cancer to the Australian health system to be over $6 billion a year.
Cancer Council NSW researchers have evaluated the performance of a lung cancer risk tool used to predict current and ex-smokers at the highest risk of developing lung cancer.
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.
The Tackling Nicotine Together trial is integrating tobacco treatment with routine care in drug and alcohol clinics to help reduce the high smoking rates among patients.