tumour

Lylia developed cancer while still in the womb. At 10 days old she began chemotherapy treatments. Lylia is now 4 years old, and was with her dad Brice while he spoke to Ken Connors.

When Maya was 2 years old, her mom Melanie took her to the pediatrician because she had fever and spots on her face. After a blood test, it was discovered that Maya's platelets were low. It wasn't leukemia, Maya has an autoimmune disorder called ITP. Melanie spoke with Ken Connors.  

After having persistent symptoms, Naila's parents took her to the hospital. After having a CT scan, it was discovered that she had a brain tumour. After an 8 hour surgery, the tumour was removed, but brain cancer was discovered. Naila's parents Vanessa and Roy talk to Ken Connors.

Both Elias and Leon have had major surgeries at a young age. One had open heart surgery at 6 weeks old; while the other had major surgery on his nose. Their father Julien spoke with Ken Connors.

At 22 months, Jamie was diagnosed with leukemia. Not only did his parents Dimitri and Kelly have to handle this devastating news, but Kelly was also nine months pregnant. Jamie's dad Dimitri spoke with Ken Connors.

Razmig was born at 31 weeks, and weighed only 1.1 kilograms. Doctors diagnosed him with a genetic mutation that would lead to kidney failure. His mother, Vana, donated her kidney to her son. She spoke with Ken Connors.

When Kento was 11 years old, he hurt himself while doing marital arts, leading to a diagnosis of complex regional pain syndrome. Kento along with his parents Minako and Robert, talk to Ken Connors.

After playing volleyball all day, Jake complained about severe back pain. He asked his parents to take him to the hospital. Jake was diagnosed with leukemia. He speaks here with his mom Jessy.

Liam has mitochondrial disease, there is no cure. Liam is the first patient in North America to receive an experimental drug. His father Kevin talks about his son.

Animals with 1,000 times more cells than humans — like elephants or whales — don't seem to have an increased cancer risk.

The shock of a cancer diagnosis is familiar for far too many people.

But when Na'ama Carlin was diagnosed with breast cancer, her health wasn't the only consideration. 

If you're in need of support you can contact Mummy's Wish or Hope for Two.

The shock of a cancer diagnosis is familiar for far too many people.

But when Na'ama Carlin was diagnosed with breast cancer, her health wasn't the only consideration. 

If you're in need of support you can contact Mummy's Wish or Hope for Two.

From chemotherapy to immunotherapy and targeted drug delivery, what’s next for breast cancer treatment? 

In this episode, Jessica is joined by cancer research expert Associate Professor Pieter Eichhorn, who is co-leading an Australian Government subsidised drug delivery project that aims to change the behaviours of proteins found in breast cancer. 

Together, they discuss what conventional treatments exist and where they’re going, Associate Professor Eichhorn’s exciting new drug treatment, and what he believes needs to change to drastically reduce the rates of breast cancer going into the future.

Associate Professor Eichhorn’s research project is supported by the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute and the National Drug Discovery Centre at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.

How breast cancer develops [01:15]

Predicting future rates of breast cancer [04:26]

Progress in conventional treatments [07:56]

What’s unique about the drug delivery project? [13:27]

Associate Professor Eichhorn’s research journey [17:34]

Reducing rates of cancer through tumour sequencing [19:45] 

Content note: This episode predominantly covers the experiences of women who are cisgender. Cisgender women are those women whose sense of their gender matches the sex they were assigned at birth and who are the population group at greatest risk of contracting breast cancer.

Learn more

WEHI: National Drug Discovery Centre announces new projects

National Breast Cancer Foundation website

Breast Cancer Now website

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Pieter Eichhorn is the Dean of Research Infrastructure at Curtin University, and an Associate Professor at the world-renowned Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute.

He has devoted his career to developing targeted treatments for breast cancer and melanoma patients. Prior to Curtin, he has worked at a variety of prestigious institutes including Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore and the Netherlands Cancer Institute. 

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Associate Professor Eichhorn’s LinkedIn profile

Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute website

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Every Australian aged 50 or over will receive regular bowel screening kits to test for cancer and other complications, but there are now calls to make these tests available to younger people, as it turns out this isn't a condition that only affects older generations.

A growing number of women especially - including those in their 20's and 30's - are developing bowel cancer, but often don't realise until it is too late as we still wrongly think of this as an 'older person's disease'.

The Quicky speaks to two women who were diagnosed with bowel cancer in their 30's and 40's, and a specialist surgeon to find out who is at risk of bowel cancer, what symptoms to look out for, and why it seems to be increasingly common.

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Graham Newstead - Adjunct Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of New South Wales, Chairman of the International Council of Coloproctology, and Medical Director for Bowel Cancer Australia

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Vulnerability is hugely healing - both to you and to others.

BUT you have to set your boundaries and stick to them!

Sharing personal stories WILL feel a little vulnerable but I hope that by talking about my radical hysterectomy you can see how sharing can also be so very therapeutic too.

 Your story is like a lamp to other people's feet.

You are only ever a few steps ahead of somebody.  

And by sharing what you have already been through - maybe they are in the middle of it and they need to know that actually there is something further forward.  

There is a way through.

There is an answer.

It is not going to stay like this forever.  

That is the power of sharing your personal life stories.  

I hang my hat on it every day of the week.  

I am so passionate that when you open up you get to heal and other people have to opportunity to heal as well.  

That is why I do what I do.

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Stacey, The Modern Storyteller, is a storytelling expert and host of The Life Chapters Podcast and The P.S. Club Storytelling Membership. 

Passionate that every life story deserves to be heard, she teaches female entrepreneurs in the first few years of business where to find their life stories and how to craft them powerfully, alongside practical and technical support.

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I have some coaching spaces available now. 

If you'd like to chat more about working with me, please email stacey@themodernstoryteller.co.uk or message me via Instagram or Facebook (links above)

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