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Fishing for a new way to curb cancer’s spread

November 9, 2021
The discovery of a mutated fish has led to a breakthrough in understanding how the lymphatic system forms, and could lead to new approaches to curb the spread of cancer.
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Launch of Cancer Mind Care

November 8, 2021
The Cancer Mind Care self-help online platform provides Australia’s first ‘one-stop-shop’ for tailored mental health support for people with cancer, their support persons, clinicians and First Nations peoples.
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Latest NHMRC grant successes

November 5, 2021
Peter Mac scientists who are pioneering new treatments and advancing understanding of cancer have secured more than $10 million funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).
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Peter Mac committed to regional patients and Bendigo Health

November 4, 2021
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Bendigo Health are delighted to announce the extension of their partnership to deliver radiotherapy services to regional Victorian patients.
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Professor Loi receives top life science prize in PM’s Prizes for Science

November 3, 2021
For her ground-breaking work in breast cancer, Professor Sherene Loi has received the Frank Fenner Prize for Life Scientist of the Year in the 2021 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science.
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Free legal support allows patients to focus on their health

November 1, 2021
Peter Mac patients, carers and families have access to free legal advice thanks to a health justice partnership with Inner Melbourne Community Legal.
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Occupational Therapist Andrea Dolence talks to a patient during a teleheath consultation.
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Boom times for telehealth to continue

October 28, 2021
Telehealth is estimated to have saved Peter Mac’s patients more than a million kilometres of travel during 2020 alone.
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Welcome to our new AAHMS Fellows

October 27, 2021
Peter Mac’s Professor Danny Rischin and Professor Alicia Oshlack have been elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
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Peter Mac partners with The Brain Cancer Centre

October 26, 2021
Peter Mac is proud to be a research partner in The Brain Cancer Centre, a new collaboration to translate brain cancer research discoveries into new treatments
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Professor Monica Slavin, Head of Infectious Diseases / Infection Control at Peter Mac
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$5M grant to improve outcomes from infection

October 22, 2021
To advance her work to improve infection outcomes in cancer patients, Professor Monica Slavin has received a $5 million Health Services Research Synergy grant from the NHRMC.
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