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Developing better treatments for
breast cancer
Professors Rob Sutherland and Liz Musgrove continue to make major advances in our undertsanding of the molecular basis of disease to help develop more targeted therapies and more successful treatments.
Australian Mesothelioma Registry launched
On 30th April 2010 The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, officially launched the new Australian Mesothelioma Registry.
Tackling Australia’s national cancer
Professor Levon Khachigian has spent his working life studying how blood vessels, and the cells that run through them, control normal bodily function and disease.
Do high socio-economic status women really pseudo-screen?
High SES women’s attitudes, beliefs and behaviours to breast cancer and mammography.
Genetic innovation and the public interest: trade secrets or full disclosure?
Tim Wilson, Director of the IP and Free Trade Unit at the Institute of Public Affairs, shares his opinion on Australian patent law and its applicability to genetic technologies.
Understanding the cognitive and behavioural changes faced by brain tumour patients
Funded by the Cancer Institute NSW through its NSW Oncology Group (NSWOG) Neuro-Oncology, this twelve-month project brought together a novel collaboration involving staff from Liverpool and Royal North Shore Hospitals.
Brain Cancer Action Week
Determined to see brain cancer share the public spotlight with its more popular cancer cousins, NSWOG Neuro-Oncology member Robyn Leonard gathered the brain cancer community to propose the idea of a national action week.
National health reform and cancer care in New South Wales
Professor David Currow, Chief Cancer Officer and CEO of the Cancer Institute NSW, discusses the potential impact of the national health reform.
Fostering partnerships for improved health services and patient support
As a general practitioner, Professor Jane Young saw some interesting clinical cases that prompted her to pursue further academic training in research methods.
Breast cancer treatment pioneer wins Premier’s award
Professor Robert Sutherland has been awarded the prestigious Premier's Award for Outstanding Cancer Researcher 2010.
Providing nursing care in rural NSW
Having grown up in the USA, Nancy Spicer found both the man she was to marry and her chosen career path on a trip to Australia.
Special thanks to the founding Director of the NSW Central Cancer Registry
The idea of a written, catalogued registry of man's afflictions in order to understand them better dates to at least the late 16th century. Fast forward four centuries and in 1972, cancer registration began in New South Wales.