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The healing power of music therapy

March 10, 2021
For more than twenty years, registered music therapists have been supporting Peter Mac patients to alleviate physical and emotional pain and to enhance their hospital experience. Now, with the recent expansion of the Parkville Integrated Palliative Care Service and the opening of a new palliative...
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Milestone for our robotic surgery team

March 9, 2021
Our robotic surgery team today performed their 1000th surgery using Peter Mac’s da Vinci Xi robot. The milestone was reached at a rate of almost one robotic surgery every day, for 3.5 years.
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Peter Mac ramps up community outreach to improve public health awareness

March 4, 2021
This World Cancer Day, 4 February, was the beginning of a month-long public health awareness campaign for Peter Mac, with our experts speaking in communities across Victoria.
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Spotlight on Ovarian Cancer Research

March 4, 2021
Ovarian cancer is the eighth most common cancer in Australia and around 1600 women are diagnosed each year.
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Latest announcement on visitor restrictions

February 26, 2021
We know how important it is for our patients to have a loved ones around, so in line with the easing of Victoria’s COVID-19 restrictions, we are pleased to be able to remove time limits and restrictions on the number of visitors to impatient wards.
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Sweet new technology reveals more about T cell killers of cancer

February 26, 2021
Peter Mac researchers have developed a new sugar-sensing single cell sequencing technology, which has allowed them to better observe T cells and understand more about how they function.
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Skin cancer: A discussion with Dr David Kok and SunSmart's Heather Walker

February 19, 2021
View a discussion with Peter Mac's Dr David Kok and SunSmart's Heather Walker, talking all things skin cancer and sun protection.
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Latest announcement on visitor restrictions

February 17, 2021
With the end of the Victorian Government’s circuit breaker COVID-19 restrictions at 11.59pm on Wednesday 17 February, new rules will be implemented for inpatient visitors at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
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Targeted prostate cancer treatment more potent, less side-effects

February 15, 2021
A new targeted treatment for aggressive prostate cancer, pioneered at Peter Mac, has been shown to produce more potent and durable responses in men and with fewer side-effects.
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First commercial CAR-T therapy to be manufactured in Australia

February 12, 2021
Patients with blood cancers will benefit with a breakthrough CAR-T therapy now to be made in Australia for the first time, within the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
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