Pictured L-R: Cabrini Health Chief Executive Sue Williams; Cabrini Malvern Executive Director, Louise Alexander
and Cabrini’s Director of Research Operations, Gavin Horrigan.

As part of Cabrini Health’s ‘Next Era’ redevelopment of our Malvern hospital site, we are proud to announce the expansion of the Cabrini Cancer Institute.

Following a Federal Government grant, the integration of the Institute within Cabrini’s Malvern hospital allows researchers and clinicians to better work together and bring pioneering cancer research closer to patients.

This expansion and development of genomic research capacity will allow Cabrini to build clinical trials to 1,000 study participants annually and better align these patients with appropriate therapies.

“Thanks to Cabrini Foundation’s generous donors, we’ve been able to launch a series of precision medicine research programs, designed to develop breakthroughs and deliver better health outcomes for all cancer patients,” oncologist and Group Director of Cabrini Research, Professor Gary Richardson OAM, said.

One such program is the recently announced Ovarian Cancer Organoids program, which offers hope for the 1700-plus Australians diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year.

The Cabrini Cancer Institute, in partnership with Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI), is building Australia’s most extensive and only biologically comprehensive library of ovarian cancer organoids – 3D cancer models – which will help to shape the future of personalised ovarian cancer treatment.

“We’re moving into an age of more targeted therapies that are designed specifically for each patient,” Prof Richardson said.

Cabrini Malvern Executive Director, Louise Alexander, said the expansion of the Cabrini Cancer Institute and its research programs is a milestone in Cabrini’s ‘Next Era’ redevelopment and in growing capacity across the full scale of oncology services.

“With cancer diagnoses growing annually, Cabrini is planning for the future needs of its community. We’re able to fully support the cancer journey of all our oncology patients across diagnostics, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, clinical trials, rehabilitation and palliative care,” Ms Alexander said.

Cabrini is the only fully-integrated cancer service south of Melbourne’s CBD and just one of two in Victoria.

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