News: cancer

Partnership to revolutionise cancer diagnosis

Posted on Apr 20 2020 by Elisa Black

The University of Adelaide has partnered with medical technology company Sienna Cancer Diagnostics in an exclusive worldwide licencing agreement to develop a unique cancer probe with the potential to detect a sugar molecule only present in cancer cells.

United front to Beat Cancer

Posted on Jan 13 2020 by Crispin Savage

Two up-and-coming young researchers from the University of Adelaide and SAHMRI are major beneficiaries of the latest round of Cancer Council SA’s Beat Cancer Project funding.

Major breakthrough for leukaemia treatment

Posted on Dec 12 2019 by Elisa Black

An international clinical trial involving Adelaide researchers has demonstrated the safety and efficacy of a next-generation treatment for people with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML).

Investment into incurable blood cancer research

At least a quarter of children with cerebral palsy have a clinically important genetic finding and 50 per cent of these will have immediate implications for their care, a new study from the University of Adelaide has found.

Posted on Aug 6 2019 by Crispin Savage

University of Adelaide-led cancer researchers have received $600,000 to help drive rapid advancements in treatments for the incurable blood cancer, myeloma.