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September 18, 2018Zero Childhood Cancer clinical trial - promising resultsThe Zero Childhood Cancer program has just released initial results of its national clinical trial, revealing promising outcomes within its first 11 months.
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February 18, 2018Childhood cancers defy current understandingCancer is still surprising researchers, making the pathway to urgently-needed new treatments more difficult to predict.
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November 16, 2017Great strides with childhood leukaemia – we can do the same for brain cancerBrain cancers are the leading disease-related cause of death in Australian children. And survival rates have changed little in decades. As a paediatric oncologist, the worst conversation I can have with my patients or their parents is to tell them their tumour is incurable. My hope is that we can replicate for brain cancer what has been achieved for leukaemia. The survival rate for the most common form of childhood leukaemia was once zero but today it’s 85%. To achieve this outcome for brain tumour patients, we will need to adopt a similar strategy as with leukaemia.
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July 11, 2017Cancer study raises hopes for new sarcoma treatmentInternational cancer research collaboration that has identified promising therapeutic targets for a rare form of sarcoma afflicting mostly young people.
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May 28, 2017What is nanomedicine and how can it improve childhood cancer treatment?An emerging area of medicine, nanomedicine, offers hope for better children’s cancer treatment that will have fewer side effects and improve quality of life for survivors.
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May 8, 2017New childhood leukaemia subtype foundA previously unknown subgroup of high-risk leukaemia in children has been revealed with a new, more accurate DNA test.
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March 8, 2017Glowing, drug-resistant leukaemia cells could help unlock new therapiesA new method for finding hidden leukaemia cells by making them glow offers a more sensitive and accurate preclinical test for leukaemia drugs.
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February 2, 2017How Africa can win the fight against childhood cancerIn developed countries a child diagnosed with cancer has an 80% chance or more of surviving whereas the survival rate of children in Africa is less than 20%.
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January 12, 2017Venetoclax - a powerful leukaemia drug - approved in AustraliaA new anti-cancer drug with the power to ‘melt away’ certain advanced forms of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) has been granted approval in Australia.
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January 2, 2017More boys are diagnosed with cancer than girls worldwide – why?The present data shows that more boys than girls are diagnosed with cancer worldwide.
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December 14, 2016Fasting may improve cancer treatment, but needs further explorationThe gold standard treatment for cancer in the last few decades has been a combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy – to kill cancer cells.
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November 14, 2016ACRF announces cancer research grant recipients of 2016Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) provided AUD $8 million in cancer research grants in 2016.
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