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	Podcast:		UNSW Centre for Ideas
	Episode:		Tailor-Made Childhood Cancer Treatments with Professor Maria Kavallaris AM \| One Big Idea
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:39:09
	Publish Date:		2025-12-04 02:35:18
	Description:		More than 400,000 children and adolescents will be diagnosed with cancer worldwide this year. Many treatments that are meant to save a child can leave them with lifelong side-effects, including heart damage, infertility and cognitive issues. But for the first time, precision medicine is using the tiniest tools – nanoparticles – to design tailor-made treatments to beat childhood cancer. Tune in learn how precision medicine is changing the odds in the fight against childhood cancer with Professor Maria Kavallaris AM, a researcher whose own cancer diagnosis occurred at the same time as a career-changing opportunity to join the Children's Cancer Institute. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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