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Peter Mac patients gifted latest masterpiece by Australian artist John Olsen

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre is now home to a magnificent five-metre wide tapestry, Life Burst, by one of Australia’s most celebrated contemporary artists, John Olsen AO OBE.

September 6, 2016

Melbourne’s first ‘You Can’ Centre opens at Peter Mac

Around 500 young cancer patients each year will have access to a youth-focused, high-tech haven as part of their care at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, in its new ‘You Can’ youth cancer centre funded by Sony Foundation Australia.

August 26, 2016

Collaborating to develop new treatment for blood cancers

From concept to clinical trial, cancer research is painstaking work. Peter Mac’s Professor John Seymour describes how Melbourne researchers and doctors at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter Mac worked with US industry partners to develop a stunningly successful...

July 28, 2016

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Peter McNeil's Peter Mac story

July 28, 2016

Peter McNeil is from Eagle Point near Bairnsdale in Victoria. He is being treated at Peter Mac on a clinical trial of combination immunotherapy for advanced stage Melanoma led by Professor Grant McArthur.

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Krystal Wright's Peter Mac story

July 28, 2016

At just 27, Peter Mac patient Krystal Wright was diagnosed with breast cancer. A local policewoman, Krystal now has a formidable force focused on protecting her life.

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PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE WELCOMES UNITED STATES VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN

July 16, 2016

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre warmly welcomes the Vice President of the United States, The Honorable Joseph R Biden Jr, to its new home located within the $1bn Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) building today.

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Major boost for Peter Mac’s Cancer Immunotherapy Research Program

July 16, 2016

Peter Mac’s Cancer Immunotherapy Research Program has received a major boost with the construction of a new lab to be housed on Level 13 of the $1 billion Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre building.

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Peter Mac e-magazine now available

July 15, 2016

Peter Mac is pleased to be able to make available online its magazine Peter Mac - A New Era, published in partnership with Melbourne’s Herald Sun Newspaper.

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Vital support for world-leading ovarian cancer research

July 14, 2016

An estimated 1,400 Australian women will be diagnosed this year with ovarian cancer*. Less than half (43%) of these women survive more than five years beyond their diagnosis*. Research is vital to improving the survival rate, and fast-tracking efforts to find new and improved treatments.

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A moving Peter Mac story

July 1, 2016

One of Peter Mac’s longest surviving patients was reunited with a radiation therapist who cared for him more than 40 years ago as a result of publicity surrounding Peter Mac’s move to its new home.

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