Breast Cancer Trials

Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) surveyed 2,000 of its members who have received a breast cancer diagnosis about the out-of-pocket costs of their breast cancer treatment and care, and other associated costs faced in the first five years after a breast cancer diagnosis. We sat down with BCNA's CEO Kirsten Pilatti to find out more about their findings.

Most cancer researchers spend their careers focusing on one disease type. Professor Wayne Tilley has instead specalised in two; breast and prostate cancer. He is renowned for leveraging the commonalities of both to advance knowledge and treatments for both treatment types. He sat down with us to discuss his research.

The BIG 1-98 breast cancer clinical trial was a pivotal clinical trial which helped to stop breast cancer returning and improved survival rates for some women.

It's a common misconception that men can't get breast cancer, however just under 1% of all breast cancers will occur in men. To help explain how breast cancer occurs and is treated in men - we sat down with Rik Thompson, Professor of Breast Cancer Research and a Breast Cancer Trials Board Member.

A liquid biopsy is a simple and non-invasive alternative to surgical biopsies, which enables doctors to discover a range of information about a tumour through a simple blood sample. We speak with Professor Rik Thompson about how liquid biopsy relates to breast cancer treatment and why it's important in metastatic breast cancer.

How kind were you to yourself during and after your breast cancer treatment? On this episode of the Breast Cancer Trials podcast we speak with two women who have experienced a breast cancer diagnosis and find out about their experiences with mental health, body image and breast cancer.

Breast Cancer Trials was the first clinical trials group to invite people with a lived experience with cancer to comment and guide the planning and conduct of clinical trials research. These women make up our Consumer Advisory Panel. Listen to former chair of the panel, Leonie Young, discuss the importance of this perspective in the clinical trials research process.

Immunotherapy allows cancer to become more visible to the immune system so it can then attack it. The PANACEA trial was Breast Cancer Trials first immunotherapy trial, and it has lead to further research into this area. Listen in to Associate Professor Prue Francis discuss the benefits of this trial, and the future of Immunotherapy in breast cancer care.

A breast cancer diagnosis can come as a huge shock to a young women and the challenges that come with their diagnosis can be different to women at a later stage in life. We speak with Breast Cancer Trials Associate Professor Prue Francis about how common it is for young women to be diagnosed with breast cancer, what challenges come with this diagnosis and how Breast Cancer Trials is working to improve the treatments for those in this age group.

The SOLACE clinical trial was for women or men who had been diagnosed with advanced BRCA-associated breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer or serious ovarian cancer. Listen in to see how these results are informing current research into ovarian and breast cancer.