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Twenty years ago, Professor Michael Barton left his role as staff specialist at Westmead Hospital to head up a newly formed group: Collaboration for Cancer Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CCORE).
It could have been a disaster. With clear blue skies outside and gentle waves lapping against the shoreline, the visually stunning backdrop to CONCERT’s workshop, could have seen participants scrambling to get outside.
In his own words, Michael Barton is very good at compartmentalising his life. So good, in fact, that he has managed to create a workable balance, fitting in a myriad of professional roles around a physically active and intriguing personal life.
Cancer survivors, carers and advocates climb Sydney's Harbour Bridge on World Cancer Day
World Cancer Day in Sydney promised to be a day with a difference and it sure delivered.
They come dressed in disguise. Looking like one of us, we don’t notice them until it’s too late and they’ve already begun to wage a deadly war.
I am a cancer survivor and I will continue to volunteer as a consumer to improve cancer outcomes
I am a cancer survivor and I will continue to volunteer as a consumer to improve cancer outcomes
CONCERT Member Of The Month: Ben Smith – tackling fear of cancer recurrence with online technologies
There’s a common theme underlying Ben Smith’s career. And it’s not just about cancer or cancer research. It’s a theme revolving around helping people who, despite being cancer free, are still scared.
I am Professor Afaf Girgis AM, a behavioural scientist.
Back row L to R: Madeline Carr, Natalia Roberts & Senior Professor Peter Metcalfe
Front Row L to R: Dr Sarah Alnaghy, Jarryd Buckley, Dr Lauren Bell, Trent Causer, Dr Bradley Oborn, Bailey Thompson, Philip Martin & A/Prof Lois Holloway
The Centre for Medical Radiation Physics (CMRP) at the University of Wollongong, headed by Distinguished Professor Anatoly Rozenfeld, are doing really big things: some at an extremely minute scale.
41 early deaths from prostate cancer could be prevented in NSW each year, if radiation therapy (RT) was given according to the evidence-based treatment guidelines, new research has shown.
UNSW Honours Medical Student, Mohammed Nimir, has won the best Presentation Award at the 6th Thomas Ashworth CTC & Liquid Biopsy Symposium on 1st November.
Professor Minoti Apte has often been described as humble. Yet the word does not, and cannot, do justice to the woman who has won a prestigious award every year for the last six years
The Targeted Cancer Therapeutics Team at the Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI) aren’t a big team. But the cancers they’re tackling, are. Cancers such as pancreatic cancer and triple negative breast cancer are just two of the cancers currently being investigated via the development and testing of innovative technologies which, they hope, will improve patient survival rates.
Professor Marie Ranson has spent her whole adult life committed to uncovering the secrets of cancer and her most recent research into cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is no different.
One hundred CONCERT members converged at the Figtree Conference Centre at Sydney Olympic Park on September 6 with a single common purpose: to brainstorm novel approaches to improving outcomes for those affected by cancer.
As a child, Dr Tara Roberts spent long days playing in dusty museum archives and soon became fascinated with science.
“I blame my mother for my science obsession. Mum worked in the Queensland museum and I spent many days there during school holidays,” Roberts explains.
When adversity strikes, it can bring you to your knees. But if adversity strikes not once, but repeatedly, knocking you down again and again, you could be forgiven if you stayed down and never quite made it back up.
There’s a lot of work being conducted at the Medical Physics Unit. Despite this work spanning across seven different research areas, each with its own focus and specialty, the goal is essentially the same: to use clinical research to help improve radiation oncology treatment and consequently improve patient outcomes.
There’s nothing quite like the smell of freshly baked goods. And on Lung Cancer Day (1st August), the Ingham foyer was flooded with the wafting aroma of cakes, muffins and cookies drawing people from their offices in droves.
Sometimes the tiniest details can make all the difference. Nowhere is this more evident than at the Centre for Circulating Tumour Cell Diagnostics and Research (CCDR) where Associate Professor, Therese Becker and her team have been delving into blood samples, on a minute scale, with the aim of identifying personal cancer characteristics known as biomarkers.
Sometimes, one person can set you on a path which ultimately shapes your whole career. For Joseph Po, CONCERT’s Biobank Manager, that person was his high school biology teacher.
The CONCERT Grant Awards recipients have been announced with seven grants awarded for 2019-2020. These inaugural grants have been made possible by the hard work of the CONCERT Council. .
The CONCERT Biobank are a dedicated team committed to providing the best biospecimens for medical research across South West Sydney, Illawarra/Shoalhaven and the ACT.