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A new independent medical education activity from Springer Healthcare IME aims to increase knowledge of treatment options for metastatic urothelial cancer. In two lively debates, experts Axel Merseburger, Enrique Grande and María-José Juan-Fita challenge each other to find the best treatment approach for real-life case studies and work together to find possible solutions.

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The aim of the Cancer Society’s National Grant Round is to fund high-quality research across the cancer continuum (including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and supportive care). In 2023, we are offering Research Grants, Post-Doctoral Fellowships, and PhD Scholarships. PhD Scholarship application documents will be available in early 2023.

Please note that we have specific funding available for Melanoma & Lung Cancer research, and we encourage applications in these research areas.

More information here: https://www.cancer.org.nz/about-us/cancer-research/national-research-grant-round-2023/

Early bird registration is open for the Breast Cancer Trials 44th Annual Scientific Meeting, which will be held in Auckland NZ 26-28 July 2023.

Don’t miss this chance to be amongst the very best breast cancer researchers for the premier event on the clinical trials calendar.

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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.

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.