Giving cancer no place to hide

Catch up on our interactive seminar on Garvan’s work to improve the treatment of advanced-stage cancers, including myeloma, breast and prostate cancer. The majority of cancer deaths arise from advanced-stage disease that has spread around the body and become resistant to treatment. Garvan researchers are tackling these challenges head-on and working towards a future where all cancers can be effectively treated, controlled, and prevented.
Professor Peter Croucher outlines Garvan’s world-leading discoveries in cancer dormancy - where cancer cells spread to organs such as bone, resist treatment, and hide from the immune system - and how this research will lead to new treatments for advanced breast cancer, advanced prostate cancer, and multiple myeloma.
Dr Rachel Dear shares her experiences in diagnosing and managing breast cancer as a medical oncologist at St Vincent’s Hospital. She also provides an update on a current clinical trial, co-led by herself and Associate Professor Christine Chaffer, testing a potential new therapy for triple-negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive forms of the disease.
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Professor Peter Croucher
Professor Peter Croucher heads Garvan’s Bone Biology Lab, with a longstanding fascination for cancer-associated bone disease. He has a particular interest in the molecular mechanisms of bone disease, how cancer spreads to bone, and what controls dormancy and reactivation of cancer cells within bone. He is motivated by the clinical impacts that his research has already had, and by the potential for widespread future impacts on bone disease, cancer relapse, and metastasis.
Dr Rachel Dear
As a medical oncologist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Dr Rachel Dear specialises in the diagnosis and management of breast cancer. She has extensive experience as an investigator of a number of national and international breast cancer clinical trials and is the director of the Wellness Centre at the Kinghorn Cancer Centre which aligns with her passion for supportive therapies and patient care.
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