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World Cancer Day – a time to highlight the importance of cancer research
Saturday 4 February is World Cancer Day, convened each year by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to raise awareness about the impact of
Daffodil Centre celebrates Australia Day honour for Professor Anna de Fazio AM
The Daffodil Centre welcomes the appointment of ovarian cancer research stream lead Professor Anna de Fazio AM as a Member of the Order of Australia,
Researchers secure over $1 million in new funding
Two Daffodil Centre researchers have been awarded fellowships in the latest round of funding announced by Cancer Institute NSW, valued at more than $1 million
The Compass Trial: One of Nature Medicine’s Clinical Trials to Watch in 2023
The Compass trial, which is a large-scale randomised controlled trial of Primary HPV DNA testing for cervical cancer screening in Australia, has recently been featured
Daffodil Centre Researchers’ paper nominated in top ten original research articles in the MJA in 2022
Daffodil Centre Researchers, Professors Nehmat Houssami and Dianne O’Connell together with her co-authors have had their paper: Long term risk of distant metastasis in women
Surviving against all odds – what can we learn from ovarian cancer super survivors
High-grade serous ovarian cancer is the most common type of ovarian cancer. Sadly for most people the prognosis is bleak but researchers at Peter Mac
Improving bowel cancer screening participation through combining individual, health service, and population level interventions
Dr Eleonora Feletto, Senior Research Fellow at the Daffodil Centre, has been awarded a $1.7 million grant from the National Health and Medical Research Council
Alcohol and obesity combine to raise cancer risk
New research by the Charles Perkins Centre in collaboration with Daffodil Centre shows alcohol consumption and obesity, together, raise the risk of developing cancer, above
Four Daffodil Centre researchers in the top two per cent in their fields
Four Daffodil Centre researchers are among the world’s most influential in their fields, according to a Stanford University study published by Elsevier. The study is based
Men with a history of melanoma have higher risk of prostate cancer
New research by the Daffodil Centre has found men with a personal history of two or more melanomas are at least two times more likely