In the past couple of years, there have been some exciting new treatments for breast cancer. This progress comes from better ways of studying cancer genes and how the immune system reacts to cancer. Scientists are also now designing drugs faster, testing them more accurately in the lab, and making them target cancer cells more directly. Because of all this, drug trials are more successful and the side effects of treatment are getting milder.
Read moreBreast Cancer Fellowship launched to address inequities
Hei Āhuru Mōwai Māori Cancer Leadership Aotearoa, Breast Cancer Cure (BCC) and Breast Cancer Foundation New Zealand (BCFNZ) have partnered to launch the Breast Cancer Fellowship and proudly announce Dr Maxine Ronald (MBChb, FRACS) as the inaugural recipient.
Dr Ronald (Te Kapotai ki Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Tapu) brings significant expertise and experience to this role including the surgical management of breast cancer, a deep commitment to improving Māori health equity, and increasing the Māori surgical workforce.
Read moreCancer Research Trust and Breast Cancer Cure – Joint Press Release
Cancer Research Trust NZ (CRTNZ) and Breast Cancer Cure (BCC) are proud to announce that they are working together to support and fund impactful, innovative breast cancer research in New Zealand in 2022.
CRTNZ is the country’s second-largest philanthropic funder of cancer research, dedicated to funding research on all types of cancer, across all stages of disease. BCC is a charity dedicated to funding high quality breast cancer research in Aotearoa New Zealand. Both organisations have a proud history of funding cancer research: BCC has funded over $11M of research dedicated to breast cancer in the last 25 years and CRTNZ has funded over $20M of research across all types of cancers in the last 20 years.
Read moreA Research Reflection from Professor Andrew Shelling
Breast Cancer Cure has been an important funder of research over the past nearly 20 years and has plugged a major gap in breast cancer research in New Zealand. Some of the early studies funded have had a long legacy, often providing resources, data and researcher support that is still going.
Read moreBreast Cancer Cure Currently Funded Projects:
1. Breast reconstruction:
Natural fat tissue grafting is now popular for breast reconstruction as it has low surgical risk, but up to 70% of fat injected is lost. The team are studying extra cellular vesicles released from adipose stem cell injections to aid fat graft survival and retention in an effort to improve outcomes for those needing or seeking lower risk surgery. Kirsty Danielson University of Otago
CurtainStudio Partnership
We are excited to partner with CurtainStudio and all their stores throughout New Zealand to help raise vital funds for breast cancer research.
Read more