Category: News & Articles
... (Keytruda) and nivolumab (Opdivo) are heralding this new era in cancer treatment. Some people taking these drugs can see their cancer completely disappear; there’s nothing left to see on their ... throw up lots of targets for the immune system. Up to a third of uterine cancers, 15% of bowel cancers, 15% of stomach cancers and ...
Category: General
Join us at HMRI to hear from cancer research leaders at a our public seminar on women’s gynaecological cancers. Endometrial cancer is the most common women’s reproductive cancers, and ovarian ... improved quality of life for women suffering endometriosis, ovarian uterine and other gynecological cancers. Dr Rachel O'Sullivan is a ...
Category: News & Articles
... mechanism linking obesity with the development of endometrial cancer has been demonstrated by a HMRI research team. An underlying ... mechanism linking obesity with the development of endometrial cancer has, for the first time, been demonstrated by a Hunter Medical ... and interrupt the communication cycle in order to maintain healthy uterine function in obese women. We are also planning to examine how ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... Gynaecological cancers - I have a strong interest in ovarian and uterine cancers. My research interests lie in both early detection/ ... prevention as well as the treatment of advanced disease. In ovarian cancer I have a particular interest in the treatment of chemotherapy ... disease and finding new ways to overcome treatment resistance. Breast Cancer – I am involved in research across the spectrum of breast ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... an average 5-year survival rate of just 45% worldwide. These types of cancer constitute the highest mortality of all cancers affecting women ... improved quality of life for women suffering endometriosis, ovarian uterine and other gynecological cancers. Biography Professor Pradeep ... Tanwar is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, a Cancer Institute NSW Career Development Fellow, and group leader of the ...
Category: News & Articles
... raft of health conditions affecting the uterus, including endometrial cancer, endometriosis and infertility. Researchers from the University ... Associate Professor Pradeep Tanwar . However, it also appears to fuel uterine illnesses when the cell becomes dysfunctional or mutated, and ... cause endometriosis. “We found that inhibiting the cell stops the uterine regeneration process. If we inhibit it in cancer, the cancer ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... and its role in preterm birth. Tissue renin-angiotensin systems and cancer. Maternal health and pregnancy outcome in Indigenous Australians ... and to provide new effective safe adjuncts for treatment of cancer by proving that widely used antihypertensive drugs are effective ... pregnancy, placenta, renin-angiotensin system, prorenin receptor, cancer, Eugenie Lumbers Emeritus Professor Eugenie Lumbers Eugenie ...
Category: Research
... This technology is also being trialled for the treatment of ovarian cancer . Indigenous women have a significantly greater rate of preterm ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... hypertension to treat the progression and recurrence of endometrial cancer? Why did you get into research? I love learning, and doing ... of the renin angiotensin system may be used to treat endometrial cancer and also how they may be able to improve cardiovascular outcomes ...
Category: News & Articles
... a method to reverse immunotherapy resistance in head and neck cancer . University of Newcastle Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor ... of the effects of RF-EME on biology. Dr Jonathan Paul $461,473 Uterine-targeted delivery of dual action therapy for preventing preterm ... Dr Paul and his team discovered a dual-action agent that maintains uterine progesterone receptor expression in a state that is consistent ...
