Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Mar 2019
Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre to be home of 'the next great wave in treatment'
25 March 2019 - A new form of cancer treatment that uses cell therapy to attack the disease will become available in Australia, after the Federal Government announced $80 million towards a facility in Melbourne.
The $105 million treatment centre will be housed at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and will offer CAR T-cell therapy, Health Minister Greg Hunt said.
The treatment involves removing some of a patient's immune system cells so they can be re-engineered in a lab, before they are reinserted to attack cancer cells.
