A 12 months after present process a world-first remedy for glioblastoma, Australian physician Richard Scolyer stays cancer-free.
The esteemed pathologist’s experimental remedy is predicated on his personal pioneering analysis on melanoma.
Professor Scolyer’s subtype of glioblastoma is so aggressive most sufferers survive lower than a 12 months.
However on Tuesday the 57-year-old introduced his newest MRI scan had once more confirmed no recurrence of the tumour.
“I could not be happier!!!!!” he wrote in an replace on social media.
Prof Scolyer is an internationally famend pathologist, and was this 12 months named Australian of the Yr alongside his colleague and good friend Georgina Lengthy, in recognition of their life-changing work on melanoma.
Co-directors of the Melanoma Institute Australia, over the previous decade their workforce’s analysis on immunotherapy, which makes use of the physique’s immune system to assault most cancers cells, has dramatically improved outcomes for superior melanoma sufferers globally. Half at the moment are basically cured, up from lower than 10%.
It is that analysis that Professor Lengthy, alongside a workforce of docs, is utilizing to deal with Prof Scolyer – within the hope of discovering a remedy for his most cancers too.