Radiation oncologists at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) are aiming to give patients every possible advantage in their fight against metastatic lung cancer. The multi-centre OUTRUN study is testing whether combining drug therapy with precisely focused radiosurgery...
A trial of a new CALHN Cancer Concierge service has recently started at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. The service provides a dedicated support officer to patients admitted to hospital for cancer treatment, to assist with non-clinical matters. Lighting the way While...
Deciding whether to have a kidney transplant is a major decision for patients and clinicians which may become easier thanks to intuitive predictions using a new approach to statistical modelling. Dr Georgina Irish, Consultant nephrologist at the Royal Adelaide...
CALHN Intensive Care Unit (ICU) clinicians are laying the foundation of a revolutionary shift towards efficient, data-led patient care and clinical management. The ICU Bedboard is a new streamlined visualisation of clinical data stored on the Electronic Medical Record...
A world-first study examining the effect of bronchoscopic lung volume reduction for patients with emphysema is underway at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. The procedure is proven to be highly beneficial, but the researchers are using a suite of cardiac, respiratory and...
Researchers at the Centre for Cancer Biology have uncovered key evidence to support first in human trials of emerging immunotherapy against deadly brain tumours. The ground-breaking work has revealed the GD2 molecule on brain cancer cells as a viable target for the...
