More than 20,000 Australians with cancer will have their DNA sequence mapped, allowing them access to previously unattainable life-saving treatment.
Australians with rare, incurable and end-stage cancers are being given hope that they may no longer be facing a death sentence with a world-first program bringing the most advanced and previously unattainable cancer-fighting tools to them for free.
Led by not-for-profit organisation Omico, and run out of the University of NSW’s newly created Centre for Molecular Oncology, the initiative, called PrOSPeCT, will be powered by $185 million of public and private funding and is expected to create 650 jobs, on top of saving lives. Wehbe’s specialist arranged for her to undergo genomic testing and through that, a personalised treatment program was created, and she was subsequently accepted into an early stage clinical trial.“It’s meant the world to me because it’s obviously given me more time to be here with my family. It’s given me more hope. I’ve got a better quality of life. My hair is starting to grow back, and really I wasn’t meant to make it until Christmas.
“A tragedy that you can’t alter just remains a tragedy. A tragedy where there’s a potential way of changing things is an opportunity, and that opportunity has come late in my career, but it’s very exciting to see it happen.” It is anticipated the initiative will bring $135 million in savings to our under-sieged health system, as well as encourage international investment in Australia’s medical research.
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