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Gaps in hospital referral processes mean that many Australians with Lynch syndrome – a gene mutation that greatly increases their risk of cancer, particularly colorectal cancer – remain undiagnosed.

The TCRN is offering competitively awarded Conference & Professional Development Grants to expand and enhance the knowledge and skills of our members in the area of translational cancer-related research or cancer care service delivery, at both national and international levels.

In this monthly article the TCRN Operations & Projects team use on-line tools to identify publications attributed to TCRN members. We are using Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature as our primary source.

Cancer researchers at UNSW Sydney will soon have access to a deformability cytometer to accelerate their research. This instrument—the first of its kind in Australia—will allow unprecedented insight into how the mechanical properties of cancer cells affect the onset and progression of cancers, and how they respond to treatment.