Richard Scolyer: Top doctor remains brain cancer-free after a year

[Pelican Press 0]

Richard Scolyer: Top doctor ******** brain *******-free after a year

A year after undergoing a world-first treatment for glioblastoma, *********** doctor Richard Scolyer ******** *******-free.

The esteemed pathologist’s experimental therapy is based on his own pioneering research on melanoma.

Professor Scolyer’s subtype of glioblastoma is so aggressive most patients survive less than a year.

But on Tuesday the 57-year-old announced his latest MRI scan had again showed no recurrence of the tumour.

“I couldn’t be happier!!!!!” he wrote in an update on social media.

Prof Scolyer is an internationally renowned pathologist, and was this year named *********** of the Year alongside his colleague and friend Georgina Long, in recognition of their life-changing work on melanoma.

Co-directors of the Melanoma Institute Australia, over the past decade their research on immunotherapy, which uses the body’s immune system to ******* ******* cells, has dramatically improved outcomes for advanced melanoma patients globally. Half are now essentially cured, up from less than 10%.

It’s that research that Professor Long, alongside a team of doctors, is using to treat Prof Scolyer – in the hope of finding a cure for his ******* too.

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