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.
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 new treatment for blood cancers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Peter Mac researchers have made another important discovery in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML), showing how a protein needed for healthy cell replication is suppressed by the cancer.
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre will undertake the transfer of inpatients from its current site in East Melbourne to its new home within the $1 billion Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre building commencing at 7.30am today.