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Contact: Michael Evtushenko, Research Program Manager

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The Kids Cancer Alliance - The Translational Cancer Research Centre for Kids

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The Kids Cancer Alliance (KCA) offers an incredible opportunity to clinical and laboratory researchers in NSW working on child cancer problems to come together to make new discoveries, apply pre-clinical research faster and with greater impact, and, improve the clinical practices around child cancer care among our share-care partners in rural and regional NSW.

At a practical level members will be encouraged, and in many cases funded, to take their research to a statewide application, so that now any new drug or diagnostic will be applied in a trial across all of NSW, making the discovery available to more children but also improving the power of the research study evaluating its use.

We will focus on developing better models of care around the thousands of young adult survivors of child cancer and the under-resourced adolescents and young adults with newly diagnosed cancer.

We will conduct over 15 individual cancer research projects in the fields such as drug discovery, new diagnostics, disease prevention in child cancer survivors and better supportive care for children from remote NSW undergoing care in their community. We will also appoint several staff into enabling positions for bioinformatics, biostatistics, and clinical trials management that will be a resource for all members.

We see education and training of future translational researchers as a primary goal of the KCA and are in the process of developing a training program for both pre-clinical and clinical researchers. Our hope is that our efforts will act as a national focus for this sort of activity and attract international interest from our region.

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