PA World Class Cancer Centre
A new cancer centre at the PA Hospital is now open and will provide researchers with Australia's most advanced technology in the examination of cancer gene function.
The Cancer Genomics Facility is set to revolutionise cancer research and will enable researchers to study the causes of cancer, including identifying inherited risk factors and genetic mutations, and how these cause the disease.
Opened by Professor Ian Frazer, who developed the cervical cancer vaccine, the new facility will use cutting-edge technology to screen tens of thousands or experiments involving millions of cells every week.
Two decades ago, only half a dozen experiments were achievable with the same time frame.
With cancer now affecting 1 in 2 Australians, financial support for medical research has never been more important.
In 2010, there were 114,000 new cases of cancer diagnosed in Australia with 43,000 people losing their lives to the disease.
The PA Hospital campus has over 600 medical researchers all working towards a goal of one day finding a significant breakthrough in a number of health areas that affect out community and hopefully finding ways we can prevent, diagnose, treat and defeat diseases such as cancer.
This facility will advance their progress in producing real outcomes changing the future of cancer treatment.
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