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Welcome to Issue 23 of Lung Cancer Research Review.

This issue features research on the value of nivolumab re-treatment after response to prior immunotherapy, and the use of opioids in advanced lung cancer.

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Lung cancer and improving the diagnostic process by sampling circulating tumour DNA in blood, is at the heart of research that has won the 2022 Roche Translational Cancer Research Fellowship (RTCRF).

Dr Annie Wong is leading a team of New Zealand’s top oncologists from the universities of Otago and Auckland, to develop a method to speed up that diagnosis.

RANZCR NZ ASM 2022 NZASM (ranzcr2022.co.nz)

5-7 August 2022, Millennium and Copthorne Hotels, Queenstown

RANZCR ASM 2022 RANZCR2022 | The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists | 72nd Annual Scientific Meeting

27-30 October 2022, Adelaide Convention and Exhibition Centre

This year, ESMO will launch an innovative, LIVE Plus, Congress format, which will offer participants the option to attend in person, in Singapore, or online, through a virtual platform, from 2 to 4 December 2022.

Pancare Foundation in Melbourne, Australia have released information on the 2022 Victorian Cancer Agency (VCA) fellowships for early and middle career researchers, open to potentially interested parties in NZ.

This opportunity is for Early and Mid-Career Research Fellowships (Incorporating the Low-Survival Cancer Philanthropic Research Fellowship Scheme) in either a Biomedical or Non-biomedical research stream. Pancare and the VCA are welcoming applications from New Zealand citizens who could be based in Victoria for a majority of the funding period.

This year, we will be offering Research Masters and PhD Scholarships to Māori students. Details of the scholarships are below:

Māori Cancer Researcher Awards 2022

To be eligible, applicants must:

• Be of Māori descent
• Be resident in Aotearoa New Zealand
• Have academic supervision which includes at least one Māori supervisor. Those unable to identify a Māori supervisor are encouraged to get in touch prior to applying.
• Intend to enrol or already be enrolled in a Research Masters or PhD. Those who have not yet enrolled for their proposed course of study but are intending to do so may apply for this scholarship. In this case any award will be conditional on the applicant’s successful enrolment in either a Research Masters or PhD at a New Zealand Wānanga or University.

Dates: April 27(Thu) 28(Fri) 29(Sat), 2023
Venue: Sapporo Park Hotel, Hokkaido, Japan

14-17 November 2022
Pullman Melbourne Albert Park and online
Convenor: Professor Stephen Ackland
asm.gicancer.org.au