Melanoma Research Victoria

Source: Daily Mail UK, January 2019 Cutting-edge technology is set to revolutionise skin cancer detection and could save thousands of lives a year. The ‘spectacular’ 3D imaging machines scan the body to create an avatar, which doctors will use to track skin spots. The Australian Cancer Research Foundation will provide a $9.9 million grant to […]

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Source: Daily Mail UK, January 2019 A 25-year-old woman who lost her eye to cancer takes her new look in her stride by matching her elaborate eye patches to her outfits. Jess Van Zeil, from Melbourne, was forced to have her left eye removed when she was diagnosed with an aggressive eye cancer called ocular melanoma […]

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Source: Morgan Newspaper, January 2019 Cilium is a slender cell protuberance that picks up signals from the cell’s external environment. Majority of human cells contain this slender cell protuberance. Now researchers from University of Zurich suggest that these fine cilium plays a key role in the formation of melanoma. Restraining development of cilia in benign […]

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Source: 3AW693 News Talk, January 2019 Until recently there was no effective treatment for advanced melanoma. That’s changing, with world-leading Australian melanoma research tripling the life expectancy for some advanced melanoma patients since 2009. Last week, Professor Georgina Long and Professor Richard Scolyer from the Melanoma Institute of Australia were awarded the GSK Award for Research […]

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