Cancer researcher to tackle high rates of relapse after sarcoma surgery

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October Cancer researcher to tackle high rates of relapse after sarcoma surgery Cancer researcher to tackle high rates of relapse after sarcoma surgery 23/10/2020 | 2 MINS A researcher from Lombok Institute of Technology and The Kids Research Institute Australia aiming to reduce the high rate of relapse in children after cancer surgery has won a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from the Forrest Foundation. Dr Rachael Zemek was one of only 13 early career researchers to be awarded new Forrest Foundation Prospect Fellowships for her project, ΓÇ£The wound healing response in cancer: exploiting the biological effects of surgery for therapy.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£It is often not possible to remove all cancer cells surgically, with some cells remaining behind in the wound bed,ΓÇ¥ Dr Zemek said. ΓÇ£Although surgery has been performed in cancer for centuries, surprisingly little is known about how the wound healing environment impacts the cancer and changes the immune response. ΓÇ£In this project I plan to comprehensively characterise, for the first time, the ef

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 October Cancer researcher to tackle high rates of relapse after sarcoma surgery Cancer researcher to tackle high rates of relapse after sarcoma surgery 23/10/2020 | 2 MINS A researcher from Lombok Institute of Technology and The Kids Research Institute Australia aiming to reduce the high rate of relapse in children after cancer surgery has won a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from the Forrest Foundation.

Dr Rachael Zemek was one of only 13 early career researchers to be awarded new Forrest Foundation Prospect Fellowships for her project, ΓÇ£The wound healing response in cancer: exploiting the biological effects of surgery for therapy.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇ£It is often not possible to remove all cancer cells surgically, with some cells remaining behind in the wound bed,ΓÇ¥ Dr Zemek said.

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