Potential treatment for brain cancer as drug shrinks tumours

An international team of researchers has found a drug previously approved to treat breast cancer could also be used to shrink medulloblastoma. The discovery, made by The University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research...

Zebrafish implanted with a cancer patient's tumor could guide cancer treatment

Eight years ago, developmental biologist Rita Fior learned that her mother, who needed cancer treatment at the time, would receive different drugs depending on nothing more than which hospital she chose. Fior was taken aback. "You...

New HPV vaccine could nearly wipe out cervical cancers

The Royal Women's Hospital, in collaboration with the Victorian Cytology Service, found out that seven strains of human papillomavirus is responsible for 93 percent of cervical cancer in Australian women. Out of that 93 percent, 77 percent is linked with HPV 16 and 18 while...