{"id":7081,"date":"2016-10-14T23:52:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T23:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/uncategorized\/improving-survival-patients-acute-leukaemia.html\/"},"modified":"2017-07-09T23:58:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T23:58:20","slug":"improving-survival-patients-acute-leukaemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/news\/improving-survival-patients-acute-leukaemia","title":{"rendered":"Improving survival for patients with acute leukaemia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\"><h1>Improving survival for patients with acute leukaemia<\/h1><\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div id=\"attachment_282\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-282\" class=\"wp-image-7085 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/improving-acute-leukaemia-14oct2016-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ground-breaking research by RBWH haematologist Steven Lane aims to help patients beat leukaemia.\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/improving-acute-leukaemia-14oct2016-122x150.jpg 122w, https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/improving-acute-leukaemia-14oct2016-200x247.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/improving-acute-leukaemia-14oct2016-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/improving-acute-leukaemia-14oct2016.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ground-breaking research by RBWH haematologist Steven Lane aims to help patients beat leukaemia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ground-breaking research with the potential to change the lives of leukaemia patients has been boosted with a $1.25million fellowship to leading haematologist Steven Lane of the Royal Brisbane and Women\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor Lane will use his CSL Centenary Fellowship to help patients beat leukaemia by tailoring individual treatments to reduce relapse rates in older patients.<\/p>\n<p>He has developed a method to rapidly profile the genetics of leukaemia types and model them in the lab, allowing him to map the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments against the genomes of individual cancers.<\/p>\n<p>A\/Professor Lane said leukaemia is one of Australia\u2019s deadliest types of cancer and it\u2019s not just one type &#8211; it\u2019s hundreds of different types, each with its own genetic fingerprint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis variation means some types of leukaemia are treatable, whereas others quickly develop resistance,\u201d A\/Professor Lane said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, 85 per cent of children with leukaemia can be cured, but the outlook for patients over 60 is bleak -only 10 per cent survive beyond one year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor Lane wants to change that outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Working with his team at QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, he\u2019ll use the Fellowship to identify new drug pathways and explore repurposing existing drugs to target resistant leukaemia types.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director of Research, Professor Scott Bell, said the Fellowship was well deserved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is brilliant news for Steven. He is one of our stellar researchers and is highly respected by his peers as one of our most innovative haematologists,\u201d Professor Bell said.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ground-breaking research with the potential to change the lives of leukaemia patients has been boosted with a $1.25million fellowship to leading haematologist Steven Lane of the Royal Brisbane and Women\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7086,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7081\/revisions\/7086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/rbwh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}