Making cancer therapy safer - new strategies to alleviate cancer therapy side-effects
Principal Advisor: Dr Ingrid Winkler
Email: i.winkler@uq.edu.au
Phone: 3443 7572
Organisational unit: Mater Research Institute-UQ
About 80% of all Australian cancer patients experience adverse outcomes following their cancer therapy. Adverse cancer therapy side-effects can greatly impact quality of life, can directly lead to patient death and/or require treatment pause, thus compromising a patients’ chance of cure. This project seeks to identify the underlying pathways that cause adverse cancer therapy outcomes, then use this knowledge for new therapeutic strategies to prevent them. Anticipated Impact of this research may include improved quality of life for cancer therapy patients and their family through a new treatment strategy to alleviate long and short term cancer therapy side-effects.