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Inaugural Blues For Breasts fundraiser is a sell-out success

Music, merriment and some much-needed funds. 

How a clinical trial is improving living with breast cancer

Breast cancer patient Carolyn Young talks to SBCF about undergoing a clinical trial at Chris O'Brien Lifehouse. 

“I will never be cured of cancer but the trial drug allows me to have a good life.”

Time to start living a life I love

Kate Wood is planning to marry her fiancé Barry in August. When she found a lump in her breast last May she went straight to the doctor, never once expecting it would be cancer.

Chris O'Brien's Associate Professor Jane Beith returns from Harvard Medical School

Hear from Associate Professor Jane Beith about her Harvard Medical School sabbatical...

A pioneer in modern breast cancer surgery, Dr Krishna Clough visits Lifehouse

At the end of 2016, Dr Krishna Clough from the Paris Breast Centre spent two weeks at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, a visit which culminated in a entertaining and informative seminar and two-day workshop on breast surgery for breast and plastic surgeons.

Why oncologists love research

Mun Hui has just joined the Lifehouse Breast Unit as a fellow. She is a medical oncologist who spends half the week treating patients at Lifehouse and the other half studying tumour microenvironments in breast cancer development and metastasis. Her aim is to identify new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of the disease.