Victoria is leading the world in cancer research, with an exciting announcement that melanoma can now be diagnosed with a blood test.
MRV Research
Melanoma diagnosis in hours with new test
Melanoma patients will be able to receive targeted treatment within hours with a Melbourne-developed new blood test that acts as a non-invasive biopsy.
MMP Research Paper Published in Oncotarget
Congratulations to Dr Andrew Colebatch who has recently published an excellent melanoma paper, utilising biospecimens from the Melbourne Melanoma Project, in the Journal Oncotarget. Andrew, who was featured in the MMP Newsletter #5 in September 2015, has provided us with a brief description of the scientific paper’s findings:
AJCC 8th Edition Melanoma Staging Analysis
The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) is the organisation responsible for devising cancer staging systems which are used by most cancer clinicians and researchers around the world as a unifying language to describe patients as well as to predict outcome for patients.