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A new Professional Practice Model for nurses

November 23, 2022
Peter Mac Clinical Nurse Educator Trevor Saunders shares his nursing story and explains the new Nursing Professional Practice Model he was instrumental in developing.
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Scientists get a window on the patient experience

November 22, 2022
“Scientists in the Clinic” has returned at Peter Mac after a COVID hiatus. For the remainder of the month, ten scientists will be embedded in clinical and other front-line hospital roles.
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Sheba Medical Centre’s Director General Professor Yitshak Kreissour tours Peter Mac.
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Peter Mac clinical trial to expand to Israel’s Sheba Medical Centre

November 18, 2022
A Peter Mac clinical trial will expand internationally to include patients in Israel and the Middle East, in a sign of Peter Mac’s growing relationship with Sheba Medical Centre in Tel Aviv.
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Meet Peter Mac's art therapist Tilly Dawson

November 18, 2022
Art therapist Matilda (Tilly) Dawson is passionate about helping patients connect with their creativity. Having worked in oncology at the Royal Children’s Hospital since 2017, Tilly now divides her time between the two hospitals. Tilly utilises her Masters of Art Therapy and psycho-oncology...
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Peter Mac leads new treatment for inoperable kidney cancer

November 17, 2022
A treatment pioneered at Peter Mac is emerging as the new standard of care for patients with inoperable kidney cancers. It involves a highly precise form of radiotherapy, and overturns previously held views that radiotherapy was not effective against kidney cancer. Peter Mac’s Associate Professor...
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Associate Professor Paul Beavis receives Cancer Council Victoria Venture Grant to develop CAR T-cell therapy for solid tumours

November 17, 2022
Associate Professor Paul Beavis, fundamental cancer researcher and immunologist at Peter Mac, has received a grant from the Cancer Council Victoria to look at ways to enhance the efficacy of a form of immune based cancer treatment known as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. CAR T-cell...
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New international partnership to accelerate search for cancer cures

November 15, 2022
Cancer patients in Australia and the United States will benefit from a new research-focused collaboration between the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), the institutions will explore potential areas of collaboration...
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Infection prevention training goes “Hands off”

November 15, 2022
At the same time the pandemic placed a huge burden on hospital infection prevention teams, it triggered a rapid overhaul of the way they delivered training.
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Peter Mac helps launch white paper to maxmise benefits of Wellness Centres

November 14, 2022
Peter Mac’s Chief Medical Officer Dr David Speakman and Director of Prevention and Wellbeing Geri McDonald joined the Hon. Ged Kearney MP, Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care, at Parliament House in Canberra last Thursday for the official launch of the ‘Integrative Oncology and Wellness...
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Peter Mac, Cartherics developing a new CAR T-cell therapy

November 9, 2022
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Cartherics Pty Ltd have entered into a Collaborative Development Program Agreement (CDPA) to develop Cartherics’ proprietary autologous CAR-T cell therapy (CTH-001) for the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL).
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