June is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month!
Bowel cancer claims the lives of 101 Australians every week (5,255 people a year) - but it's one of the most treatable types of cancer if found early.
Australian medical guidelines recommend screening every 2 years between ages 50-74.
Read about current ARH-funded bowel cancer projects: - Dr Ryan Cohen - 'Predicting colorectal cancer metastatic risk: the tumour immune microenvironment, circulating tumour-derived exosomes, their integrins and tumour DNA as biomarkers of disease progression'
- Lionel Leck - 'Development of Innovative Chemotherapeutics that Target ATP- Binding Casette (ABC) Family Proteins Expressing Cancers to Overcome Multidrug Drug Resistance'
- Liam Ryan - Stool cytology - a new frontier for non-invasive bowel cancer screening
- Dr Atandrila Das - Characterising Colorectal Metastases and Optimising their Management
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