Melbourne researchers believe that understanding how kangaroos repair their DNA could be the key to preventing skin cancer in the future.
02/12/2009
RESEARCHERS at TGen Clinical Research Service (TCRS) at Scottsdale Healthcare have analysed clinical trial results of potential new investigational therapy for advanced and metastatic basal cell skin cancer.
09/09/2009
A PATIENT who was prescribed a course of anti-cancer drugs has lost his finger prints, causing him to be detained in the United States.
29/05/2009
ACCORDING to a report by Nehmat Houssami in the Annals of Oncology, women who survived a primary breast cancer were more likely to survive a subsequent case if detected early.
20/03/2009
AUSTRALIAN research published this week in The American Chemical Society’s Journal of Medicinal Chemistry describes a new radiopharmaceutical tracer which promises to give clearer pictures of melanoma and could lead to improved disease treatment.
08/10/2009
A NEW DRUG designed to “seek and destroy” common cancers such as breast, prostate, endometrial, pancreatic, ovarian, skin and testicular cancers is being tested at TGen Clinical Research Services (TCRS) at Scottsdale Healthcare.
06/10/2009
RESEARCHERS claim to have developed a mouse model that allows them to replicate normal pigment cells at the earliest stages of their conversion into malignant skin cancer in humans.
17/03/2009
RESEARCHERS from the National Cancer Institute’s Centre for Cancer Research have identified a gene called PTEN which may play an important role in the formation of melanoma.
27/03/2009
Recent developments in RNAi, particularly in the design of lentiviral-based short hairpin RNA (shRNA), now allow researchers to potentially develop diagnostic and prognostic strategies for treating cancer and metastasis.
03/11/2009
University of Melbourne medical researchers, Professors Frank Carbone and Mark Smyth, have received AUD$4 million NHMRC Australia Fellowships for their work in chronic infectious diseases and cancer research respectively.
11/02/2010