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A Childhood Cancer National Precision Medicine Program
Assoc Prof David Ziegler: I’d like to begin by acknowleding the traditional custodians
of the lands on which we gather and pay respects to their elders past and
present.
The driving force behind our program was
really to improve outcomes for children with the most aggressive and the most
difficult to treat cancers, to see if we can identify new genetic targets and
new treatments.
Through our ZERO Childhood Cancer Program,
we have opened up a trial that is available in every childhood cancer centre in
Australia and we’re actually able to make a finding for over 70 per cent of
patients.
In 30 per cent of patients, we’re seeing
their tumours shrink, and in another 40 per cent of patients we’re seeing the
tumour stop growing, with prolonged stable disease.