Together Caring, Together Curing
Medical research and innovations in patient care improve health outcomes and our lives. These advancements in treatments, interventions, processes and rehabilitation do not occur overnight. They can take years, even decades of research by some of Australia’s brightest medical minds.
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St. George Cancer Research Centre
A number of promising areas of research into cancer are underway at the St George Cancer Centre.
Research includes:
- Investigation of the ways prostate & ovarian cancers metastasise (spread), identifying drug and radio-resistance associated with tumour micro-environments, and cancer stem cell & epithelial cell changes
- Investigation of ‘novel biomarkers’ in human body fluids, looking for markers that indicate cancer. This work offers hope of new methods of early diagnosis, so critical in many cancers where the symptoms only become known when it’s too late.
The aim is to develop targeted and combination cancer therapies to control metastatic prostate, breast and ovarian cancers.
This work will also have application for other similar cancers as well.
Targeted therapies
Targeted terapies are a new range of drugs (chemo) that target only the cancer. Advances will mean that patients are likely to live longer with a higher quality of life, as these treatments offer less risk, less side effects and a greater impact on the cancer.
