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Fight cancer with fitness

In an Australian first, a new exercise-medicine healthcare service designed to combat the detrimental impact cancer has on patients’ health, […]

Volunteers needed for national survey of chemotherapy side effects

Researchers from the University of New South Wales are seeking people who have received neurotoxic chemotherapy (i.e. chemotherapy that can […]

One in five breast cancer patients could benefit from BRCA treatments

More breast cancer patients could benefit from treatments currently used only for patients with a faulty BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene, […]

Virus inspires new way to deliver cancer drugs

Drugs disguised as viruses are providing new weapons in the battle against cancer, promising greater accuracy and fewer side effects […]

Battling the side effects of prostate cancer

A study at the Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition at Deakin University is seeking men with prostate cancer to […]

Prostate cancer treatment breakthrough

Deakin University medical scientists have made a breakthrough in prostate cancer treatment, by piggy backing a chemotherapy drug onto a […]

New cancer nanomedicine reduces pancreatic tumour growth

Australian cancer researchers have developed a highly promising technology to deliver gene-silencing drugs to treat pancreatic cancer, the most chemo-resistant and […]

Cancer investigations should consider evolution as a cause

The reasons people and animals develop cancer in some organs but not in others may have more to do with […]

Opdivo

Generic Name: Nivolumab Product Name: Opdivo Indication What is Opdivo used for Opdivo is used to treat advanced melanoma in […]

Epirubicin ACT

Generic Name: Epirubicin hydrochloride Product Name: Epirubicin ACT Indication This medicine is used to treat the following types of cancer: […]