Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

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New research into CAR-T cell therapy could extend its use to solid cancers

Alayna Hansen February 12, 2018

New research into CAR-T cell therapy has revealed crucial mechanisms that could help the immunotherapy technique, which is currently only effective against blood cancers, be adapted for the treatment of brain tumors and other forms of solid cancers.

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Common solvent found to have anti-cancer properties

Darren Quick May 8, 2014

Researchers from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia, have found that a N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP), a common solvent used in a wide array of industrial and medical products, has cancer-fighting properties.

Dr. Jake Shortt discovered a common industrial solvent called NMP has anti-cancer properties